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Digital page images are linked to the text file. iii Published Every Friday u u I1LLoinniietunii liOt1111 iL VOLUME XIX MT VERNON ROCK CASTLE COUNTY KY FRIDAY JULY 3i 1906 NUMBER 42 B rid it Snappy Stylish Clothing Kwality Kounts If you are looking for unusual clothing values youre looking for us and we are looking for you 1V eve had a lot of good things to say about our fcK K Clothing in the past but there has never been a time whensve felt so thor toughly our complete mastery of the situation in all lines of merchandise as we do this season Weve bought heavy because we expect to sell heavy and we expect to sell heavy simply be cause we are going to be able tu offer the finest lllcitl10St upto date goods of every kind such as will not be found in any other store in Rockcastle county KwaKFy Kounfs7 Suits flouTs Shoes and Stetson Hats will do to tie to They are carefullymade spledidly finished and the styles arEHUp To Now If we sell you goods this sea son wellsell vou next seasonJ ML Vernon the Tows Bakers the Place UW7ifYffPJwr i REICN Of TERROR IS ON IN CZARS LAND COSSACKS AND ROWDIES SLAY JEWS AND PLUNDER HOUSES AT ODESSA CITY REPORTED IN A STATE OF PANIC Proclamations by Terrorists Condemn Emperor Gen Trepoff and Others to Death Members of Douma Re turn fronT FinlandILondon July jA dispatch to the lemur Telegram company from Odessa aysImenced here A number of persons Lave already been killed or wounded Cossacks and rowdies are plundering the deserted Jewish houses and hops On Srednaia street three Jews were killed and three were wounded in attempting to defend their prop ty while the police looked on Another bloody conflict is now re ported to be in progress in Stepovai street The whole city is in a state of panic Many of the inhabitants are fleeing The black hundred are tiisiribiitiiig bloodthirsty proclama titus ii the streets Death for Czar and Trepoff- St Petersburg July Ju Proclama itsio iiajoiiiRiiig that the death sen uce has been imioscd on the em eor Gen Ire off M Pobiedonosta- ua ho was jiructirator general of e lIy synod Gen Orloff the jsicifi aior tf the Baltic provinces and others has been been scattered- er art of Iirerhof The terror t lire said to have suc eilet in nahng toiiies of the sen truce on the dors of the headquar urs of Gen 01ud Gen Trepoff Members of Parliament Return St Petersburg July 50el 100 of the Russian members of parlia ment who Monday issued an address to the country reached the Finnish railronl station here from Viborg at three oclock Tuesday afternoon A crowd of several thousand persons gathered there before the arrival of the train but a heavy force of gen darmes promptly hurried the people Into the streets whence they were driven away by mounted gendarme Several arrests of suspects were made in the crowd hut the orders of the police evidently were limited to preventing a demonstration the cav alry in a neighboring barrack not appearing The last car of the train was occupied by the members of the Group of Toil and had red Hags flying from the windows as it rolled into the station Prince Dolgoroukoff ant M Xaboukoff headed the members as they marched out in a body through lines of police A few friends who managed to obtain ai initance to the station greeted the parliamentarians warmly but they feared to indulge in any demonstra lion which might have justified tin arrest of the members who fully ex pected to be surrounded and marche off to prison They appeared gray but resolute On the train it lUll been arranged that the members o the various groups if not arrested should hold a caucus Tuesday even ing and confer on the next step There seems practically no differ ence of opinion now They have gout too far to retreat They stand irre vocably committed and must march on The only difference of opinion is as to what the next step will be and how far it will go To Distribute Address Before leaving Viborg it was arranged through underground revolu tionary channels to distribute the address to the country hundreds of thousands of copies of which have ready been surreptitiously printed The members of parliament therefore have already opened an alliance with the purely revolutionary organiza Lions The opinion is also unani mous that they must have Immediate recourse to the only weapon at their disposal namely general political strike for the purpose of paralyzing the government Word has been re1 eel ved here that the Moscow work mens council will be ready Sunday or Monday and a tentative decision to call a strike will be taken on Sun day A telephone message from Mos cow says that a great popular demonstration organized by the leaders of the workmen as a preliminary to the strike occurred In the streets there Tuesday but In pursuance of the plan care was taken to keep within peaceful limits and there was no In terference on the part of the police or troops Plan Military Dictatorship- The way has been prepared for a military dictatorship by a proposition now under consideration at Peterhof to create an advisory council to assist the emperor President Stolypin Gen Trepoff and others conferred with the emperor upon this subject On the surface the scheme is to form such a council out of the members of the conselvaItlves eral constitutional democratic lead ers with the purpose of reassuringI the population of the governments future intentions Sltuatlon in Sebastopol Critical The situation in Sebastopol is no critical that the citizens are fleeing in hundreds to the interior of the penin sula The entire fleet and the gar rison forces are reported to be on the brink of casting In their lot with the people From Warsaw disaffection among the troops is reported The socialists have issued inflammatory proclama tions urging refusal to pay taxes or furr vh recruits and calling for a rev olutionAt serious rioting In which 40 political prisoners escaped from prison followed news of the dissolu tion of parliament Twenty persons were killed in the fighting Czars Family May Flee to Denmark Berlin July 25A St Petersburg dispatch says the czarina has bought a villa in Denmark to which the Inn perial family will retreat if forced to The czar is In a state of extreme nervousness from being forced to sign the order for the dissolution pf the douniH Capture Workmens Delegates Moscow July 25The police Tues day attempted to capture all the dele gates to the workmens council but succeeded in capturing only 14 Text of Doumas Manifesto- St Petersburg July 25The fol lowing is the text of the parliamentary manifesto adopted at the meeting held at Viborj To the people from their popular all Russia Parliament has been dissolved by ukase of July 21 You elected us as your represent atives and instructed us to fight for our country and freedom lh execu tion of your instructions and our duty we drew up laws In order to insure freedom to the people We demanded the removal of Irrespons ible ministers who were infringing the laws with impunity and oppress ing freedom First of all however we wanted to bring out a law respect ing the distribution of land to work ing peasants and involving the as signment to this end of crown ap panages monasteries and lands be longing to the clergy and compulsory expropriation of private estates Tin government held such a law to be inadmissible and upon parhamen once more urgently putting forward its resolution regarding compulsory expropriation parliament was dis solved Seething with Unrest The government promises to con voke a new parliament seven mouths hence Russia must remain without popular representation for seven whole months at a time when Un people are standing on the brink ot ruin and industry and commerce an undermined when the whole country l LOCATION OF VIIJORO KIXUANM V1IKKE DOUMA HELD ONE dh S1ON Is seething with unrest and when thi ministry has definitely shown its capacity to do justice to popular needs For seven months the govern ment will act arbitrarily and will fight against the popular movement In order ts obtain a pliable subservient parliament Should it succeed how ever In completely suppressing the popular movement the government will convoke no parliament at all Urges People to Be Firm Citizens stand up for your tram pledon rights for popular representa tion and for an imperial parliament Russia must not remain a day with out popular rcprcsenation You possess the means of acquiring it The government has without the as sent of the popular represontatlves no right to collect taxes from the people nor to summon the people to military service Therefore you are now the government The dissolved parliament was justified in giving neither money nor soldiers Should the government however contract loans in order to procure funds such loans will be invalid without the con sent of the popular representatives The Russian people will never acknowledge them and will not beI called upon to pay them Accordingly until a popular representative parliament Is summoned do not give a kopec to the throne or a soldier to the army Be steadfast in your refusal No power can resist the united Inflex ible will of the people Citizens in this obligatory and unavoidable struggle your representa tives will be with you Stromboli Volcano Spouting Palermo Sicily July 25The Stromboll volcano after quieting down has again become violently ac tive The ashes reached Sicily lava is pouring out of the crater and the population of the Island of Stromboli fs most excitedIWisconsin Veterans Meet Madison Wis July 25Tl1e annual reunion of the Twelfth Wisconsin reg iment opened at the state capitol TuesdayIChildren like Kennedys Laxa tive Honey and Tar The plea santet and best cough syrup to take opiatesSromBOMARDT teU ttthsstd t ae3 ngs J r w mtl11iliufiwwwH W G NICKLEY F L M B SALIN IPresIdent 1st VPresident 2nd VPresident Cashier I 3IBRANCH CITIZENS BANK BRODIIKAD I yI= MT VERNON KENTUCKY carefulIcourteous treatment prompt service to all our customers = Protected by an absolute fire and burglar proof screw door safe and bur = righ1r insuranceIWe pay 3 per cent on all deposits of too or more when left with them monthsMw- Inn n n = n nnn- nI E DIRECTORS wt rH H WOOD W G NICELEY W J SPARKS 1 W RIDER F L THOMPSON Inn JOE DICKERSON G T JOHNSON M J MILLER LT BETHURUM M B SALIN mu rw111111 = 111111111111 r11i 1i1 vuuuuuu= == II i v11111 1111 r To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Seven Million boxes sold in post 12 months This Signature ROBINET We are having plenty of rain at present and some very bad storms Corn crops are good which is a goodsign that moonshine whisky will be plentiful later on Farmers are very busy between showers with their oats and grass H M Mink our hustling saw mill and lumber man had a narrow escape with his life a few days ago He was returning from the log woods late one evening and lost his way Not k no win where he was walked over a cliff some thirty feet high He was confined to his bed for several daya but we are glad to say that he is much better at this time W R Allen is in Cincinnati this week buying fall and winter goods tor Allen Sons who are doing a nice business at this place The roads in this section of the county are in a wretched condition and should be looked after at once CURED A COMKADE OK CHOLERA M OR BUS AND SAVED His LIFE While returning from the Grand Army Encampment at Wash ingtonUity a comrade from Elgin Ill was taken with cholera morbus and was in a critical condition soys Mr J E Houghland of El don Iowa I gave him Chamber lains Colid Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and believe saved his life I have been engaged for ten years in immigration work and conduct ed many parties to the south and west 1 always carry this remedy and have used it on many occasion No person travel ing or at home can be without this remedy For sale by Chas C Davis leading druggist Mt Vernon MARETBURG 0 The public school at this place is progressing nicely under the tu tOl hip of Prof S E Chandler Mr J J McCall spent Saturday and Sunday with homeiolksMrs- B D McClure who has been visit ing her mother returned to her home at ParisMr and Mrs L E Houk and Miss Alice visited at Mt Vernon first of the week Mr Logan McCall made a flying trip to Hazel Patch last week Miss Montie Martin of Mt Vernon visittd Miss Alice Houk last week Mr J H Dodd of Waverly N C is visiting his son Mr R G Dodd at this placeMiss Mollie Carter of Brodhead visited relatives here first of the week There is quite a number of our peo pie intending to attend the union singing at Capps GroveMrs J N Griffin is expecting her daugh ter and daughterinlaw Mesdames J F Sage andE Griffin of St Louis OA81p nABears Sinature cf r A y Established 1887 THOMPSON successfully VACATION For your summer outing allow us to suggest Colorado and Utah famous the world ove for their cool and invigorating climate magnifi cent mountain scenery and pictur esque summer resorts which Ire located along the line of the Den ver Rio Grande The Sciepic Line of the World Very low ex cursion rates and Circle tour tickets are on sale during the sum mer months via these lines to all the principal points of interest The Denver and Rio Grande with its numerous branches penetrating the great states of Colorado and Utah has some forty different Cir Reckyimous 1000 mile tour for 2800 which comprises more noted scenery than any similar trip in the world passing the following points of interest La Veta Pass Poncha Pass Toltec Gorge Indian reservations Durango Mancos Canon Rico Lizard Head Pass Las Ani- mas Canon Silverton Ouray Cim- arron Canon Black Canon of the Gunnison Marshall Pass and the Royal Gorge This trip can be comfortably made in five days but at least ten days should be devoted to it so that one may view at leis urecthe principal sights Tickets at very low rates are also on sale to Salt Lake City Utah If you con template a trip through Colorado or Utah let us send you some beau tifully illustrated booklets free S K Hooper G P T A Den ver Colo I ONLY 82 YEARS OLDII am only 82 vears not expect even when I get to be real old to feel that way as long as lean get Electric Bitters saysI Mrs E H Brunsou of Ga Surely theres nothing else keeps the old as young and makes the weak as strong as this grand tonic medicine Dyspepsia torpid liver inflamed kidneys or chronic constipation are unknown after taking Electric Bitters a reasonable time Guaranteed by all druggists Price Soc The fourteenth annual meeting of the United States Leage of Local Building and Loan Associations isI being held in Cincinnati BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDRN During the summer months children are subject to disorders of the bowels which should receive careful attention as soon the first unnatural looseness of the bowels appears The best medicine in use for bowel complaint is Chamber lains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as it promptly controls any unnatural looseness of the bow els whether it be in child or an adult For saletoy Chas C Davis ihe leading druggist Mt Vernon roLfnhIDNEcUREik tI Cant Q- TwslL 1 ntvtry J MODEST CNAIMS OETBN CARRY THE MOST CONVICTION Vhen Maxim tkefainous gun its renter placed his gun before a com miUee of udges he stated its carrying power to be much below what he wou1daacomplishThe surprise instead of a disappoint ment It is the same with the main ufacturers of Chamberlains Colic RemedyTheythis remedy will accomplish but prefer to let the users make the statements What they de claim is that it will positively cure diar rhoea dysentery pains in the stomach and bowels and has never been known to fail For sale by Chas C Davis the leading drug gist Mt Vernon TO CURE 1 COLD IN OKI OAT Take LAXATINE BROUO QUI NINE Tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure E W Groves signature is on each box 2SCtS W A CARSON PainterPaperhanger Agent for HENRY BOSCH COS line of WALL PAPER BOOS- IIOULIINGS ETC ETC ODtyolerdtr All Work Guaranteed I COMMISSIONERS SALE Jno D Harris Exrs Flit Notice of against Sale EquityIthe pray Term thereof 1006 in the above styled case the undersigned willon Monday the 30th day of July 1906 be tween the hours of 1030 oolock A M and 12 oclock Mon premises on waters of Walnut Creek County proceed to expose to Public Sale to the highest and best bidder the following described property viz- Thaee tracts of land 1st one located on aRdiin Rockcastle Co on head waters of Roundstone creek and contain ing 559 12 acres3rt1 a tract of lahd located in Rockcaetle county on headwat ers of Roundstone creek and containing upontheproducetheeo so ordered to be made and the costs hereof crsditapprovedpurchase money to have the force and effect of a JudgenieutbeaMug legal inter est from day of sale with a Lien reserv purriCOUJNSICourt v TWENTY YEARS BATTLE I was a loser ina twenty year battle with chronic piles and mal ignant sores until I tried Buck lens Arnica Salve which turned the tide by curin both tillnot a trace remains writes AM Bruce of Farmv ille Va Best for old Ul cers cuts burn and wounds 2SC at all druggists NIT VERNQN SIGNAL FRIDAY July 27 1906 r Published every Friday by EDGAR S ALBRIGHT SUB CRIPirPN ONE YEAR IOC Advertising rates made known 01 application FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to announce JUDGE JOHN W HUGHES of Mercer Countyas a candidate to represent the Ei hth Congressional District- i n Congress to succeed lion G G Gil bert subjedl lo the action of the Demo cratic party Wo are iUioired to announce I13lfA1VEY 1IKLM of Lineolli County as a candidate to represent the Eighth Congees ional District in Congress to succeed the lIon G q Gilbert subject to the action of the Democratic party In this issue of the Register ap pears the announcement for Con press of the Hon Harvey Helm of Lincoln county Mr Helm is well known tp the people of this county as the man to whom they Rave their allegiance in the campaign two year ago which as all reniem her was won by Congressman Gil btrt of Shelby Though he went into the convention that year with the largest nuinber of instructed votes by reaon of the long dead lock arid the action of the commit tee which trifk edJiim out of the vote of G eity he was de feated In float convention leis selection was the choice of the voters of the district as evidenced bv the preponderating number of instruc ted votes in his favor But when victory was taken from his grasp by the coalitiou of his opponents he accepted defeat with becoming grace and is therefore according to our view the logical candidate for the honor to day We supported Mr Helm in his previous race and liaving since that time had no reason to change our opinion are for him again He is in the race solely because he thinks he can win and we shall as sist linn to the best of our ability The contest betweettxTie andidates will bea friendly one as all three are gentlemen who will conduct the campaign on a high plane Mr Helms record is without spot or blemish be vis educated trained and experienced in matters that fit him emirientlyfor the position to which he aspires and his service in the House would be such as to rtflltctthe blgtestcfedit on his con stituencyWe of Mr Helm a mo ment ago as being the logical can didate for this honor That he is and we are confident it will be so recorded by the voters of the district But this fact did not deter him from giving the right of way to his gIfted freud elovedtDick Miller Through ties of friendship be yielded his preten tious to those of his friend and was one of Mr Millers most enthusias tic supporters The untimely death of Madisons brilliant son has however left the way clear and he has now come to this county toI claim his own And we have little doubt that he will be here accorded the sine enthusiastic support that he received two years ago The people ot this county know Mr Helm as they do not know the gentlemen opposing him they know he was entitled to the nomi nation in the convention two years ago they know his record is straight andtbat he is of Congressional caliber and thinking of these things we believe they will cast their ballots in his favor and give himthe donor in an honest prima ry 16 wnicM he was entitled in the last convention by the votes of the people Richmond Register TIlE Hon W J Price of Dan ville tit cause pf11 health has been forced to withdraw from the race for CongreSs in this district In his opening speech at Lawrence burg Mr Price suffered heat pros tration which has worked so heavily upon him that his physicians have said he must not continue in the race t himany friends this was A great surprise as he would have ben a strong man in the fight had his health permitted He is one of the brightest young lawers in the State find would have made a representative THE Hon James 1 Hamilton of Lancaster is still speakingover the district presumably in the in terest of his candidacy for Congress but when jMr Hamilton is asked the straight questionHare you a C rH11dontshould have been able to make his mind in this length of time upI HELM and McCieary sounds mighty good to u- sCALL FOR CONGIESSIONAI4 PHI 3IARY A primary election is hereby called for Saturday the first day of September 1906 in all the voting precincts in the Eighth Congressional District of Ken tucky at the regular voting places he twccn the hours of oclocka in and 4 oclock p m for the purpose of se lecting a Democratic candidate for Representative in Congress in said District All Democrats who are residents of said District and Svho are legal voters on November 6 1906 will he permitted to vote in their respective precincts and are invited and requested to do so 3 livery candidate who desires to have his hame printed on the ballots to be used in said primary must deposit with the Chairman of this Committee on or before 12 oclock midnight fifteen days before the date for holding said primary the sum of seven hundred dollars to he used in defraying the expenses of holding said primary election and at the same time of making said deposit each candidate must give written notice to said Chairman that he desires to be a candi dateat said election and notice to the Chairman shall be notice to the Commit tee 4 In all those counties hawing cities in which the law requires the registration of voters the Democratic Committee of such counties or the Chairman thereof Dempocratsistration to be copied into separate hooks- as is required by law 5 Said election shall ba held in all respects as required by law for holding regular primary elections and a uniform ballot shall be used in every precinct and the Chairman of this Committee is hereby authorized and directed to cause to lie printed hound and distributed to the various Chairmen of the County Com mittees the ballots for each county He is further directed to purchase ami distribute to the Chairman of the County Committee all the necessary parapherna lia for holding said primary election 6 The Democratic County Committee of each county shall appoint the officers in each precinct to hold the election and they are to lw selected from lists furnish ed by the candidates at least ten lays he fore said election and to he as nearly equally divided as jxissible as to Judges Clerks and Sheriffs among the various candidates The officers of said primary election will when the poles are closed proceed at once to count the votes cast for each person for said office and after counting the votes theywill return to the boxes sealing up the taxes and the Sheriffs of the election precincts will by the next Monday morning carry and deposit the boxes with the chairman of the County committee at the Court house in the respective counties The officers of the election at each precinct will make a written statement of the number ofvotes cast for each person voted for for the statamentlIspective ballot boxes 7 The precint ballot lox and all turns are to be made to the Chairman ot the County Committee and if he is not in the county to the Secretary of the County Committee at the court house in the tithe required by law towit within two days after said election- S And on next day after returns have been made the County Committee shall meet and canvass the returns and certify the same to the Chairman of the District Comniittc of the Eignth Con gressional District which District Committee shall on Vednesday the fifth day of September 1906 at 10 oclock a in in the city of Nicholasville Jessa mine county Ky meet and canvass the returns declare the result and issue aI candidateIelection as is required by law and with out delay 10 In the event there ia surplus maining after defraying the expenses of said primary it shall be returned to those by whom it was paid in in the same pro portion in which it was paid by them and if there shoud be a deficit then the candidates shall be assessed to supply such deficit Provided however if no more than one candidate shall have com pliedwith the conditions herein impos edb August 19 1906 then the Chair man of the District is directed to recon vene the Committee as soon thereafter as practicable at Nicholasville Ky and to declare such candidate the regular nominee of the Democratic party for said office and to issue to him a certificate of nomination and the primary election herein orderedwill not be held The order on the ballot in which the names of the candidates who may enter this primary shall be printed shall be determined by lot 12 No registration shall he required in towns or cities where no registration has yet been hail under the general elec tion law J NORTON FITCH Chairman LETCIIHR SAUNDERS Secretary Col W H Gentry of Lexing ton is arranging for a reunion of the Gentry family to be held at Bethany Park Ind The annual midsummer meetiog of the Kentucky Press Associotiou atItendance OASTORX4Beare the Signature of UNION COLLEGE A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY Near the famous Cumberland Gap PULL ACADHMIC NORMAL AND COLLEGE COURSES UNSUHlASSED MUSICAL DEPARTMENT Curriculum based on the University Senate of the United States Elegantly furnished Dormitories Tuition as low as consistent with the best advantages ministersIWrite for Catalogue and full particulars PRESIDENT JAMES W EASLEY Barbourville Ky PLEDGES FRIEND TO GZT JOGB AND FOLLOWS HIS SWEETHEART TO A SUICIDES GRAVE Says He Kills Himself to Avoid Murdering Hs Enemy and Names a Prominent Business Man Marion 0 July 25Rather than stain his hands with the life blood ol the man who he claimed wrecked hh life and unable to bear the grief over the suicide of his sweetheart a little over a week ago O Guy Johnston 21 well known business man took his own life ills body was found by tiE police in his store where he had turned on the gas and then drained a threo hejhand clutched an open razor to wield necessaryI not stale my hands in the blood of him whc- ruined my life wrote the suicide in a letter to George W Sells a friend- want you to defend my darling canjcausoIIn a letter to his brother who is ic Chicago Johnston wrote Charles Meily caused all this So dont forget it Keep Rex until he dies as Peggy and loved him Rex was Johnstons do Peggy cetheartIas one will ruined hi life is a leading business man and prominent in lodge circles ol the state In a fourth letter Johnston again refers to Meily UHf pledges his friend lame E Mesjon er to whom the letter is written to remember their solemn obligation that get justice Not in years leas thane been a sensa tion in Marion rivaling the suicide ol Miss White and Johns on Miss Whitt was a beautiful little blonde Johnstoc came here several years ago from Newark O He was a member of Bat tery G of the Ohio light artillery and saw service in the SpanishAmerica war None of his letters throw any light on the mystery surrounding till suicide of his sweetheart It has de eloped however that on the diy Miss V5te took her life sc VNI Julinstsc qiuireled over attention paid her bj Meily Several days after Miss Whites death Johnston swore that he woulc kill Meily and procured a revolver tc do the work He was disarmed and Meily appealed to the police for protection Johnston gave the police tilE promise that he would not molest Meily which explains his statement that he could not live without staining his hands with Meilys blood NEEDS REST The Father of 25 Children Begged Judge to Send Him Up for Life New York July 25Ive been the father of 25 children judge your hon 01 said Valentine Yonkowski in po lice court Brooklyn and wish you would send me to jail for life I want to rest Yonkowski tailor summoned by his second wife Louisa who said he had failed to support her and Melt 10 children Yonkowski who wore a long white beard shrugged his shoul dens Yes he said I do not spend anymore money on her and the 10 By m first wife I had 15 children For those and for these I have spent 15000 just raising them I am tired I get no thanks Why should I always slave to raise citizens Lock me up till die War to the Knife Proclaimed St Petersburg July 25Wa to the knife with revolution and the knife to the hilt was proclaimed by Premier Stolypin in a telegram addressed tc the governor generals governors and prefects throughout Russia and to the viceroy of the Caucasus who are or dered to strike and spare not in efforts to preserve order and crush the en envies of society Wants Hours Reduced Buffalo N Y July 25Paper makers in the 33 mills of the Interna tional Paper Co in United States and Canada have given notice that they will go on strike August unless their working hours are reduced to eight a day without reduction in wages Shows Honor to Root seSoIslonzilian minister of foreijn affairs and Secretary Root were elected 101conyeneLongworths at Karlsbad Karlsbad July 25rr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth arrived here They were welcomed at the Hotel Sa voy by all the members of the American colony Lord Wcstbury gave a dinner In their honor at the hotel IAsks Ten Millions Damages July 25The Venezuelan government is suing the Compagnie veneIzuelieusfor alleged nonfulfillment of contract fillIDoes evil still your whole life Does woe betide Your thoughts abide on suicide You need a pill Now for prose and factsDe Witts Little Early Risers are the most pleasant and reliable pills known today They never gripe Sold by Chas C Davis ojucd t sl PUUSI atp jo uonnmilou Bin pun jauto am jo Suuuoil BAiri trials IIOIIDCDJ roust ally OAJJ an otuoDoq upic sui uwop Suijomb JOJB ouB3OA Ilogtuo 1i- S0uLcy Slnr HOIS oiuioiuj jsv noqiuojS PIO IpUlUmm JO ul sam oqj pun p- mG aq drat sauaC jo spjoooa any iljuotu u uuu aaoiu joj uaiuuiOAoS Din Aq pafoiiltua oq sllaop 09 Boor sill aojovip soSBOjqo jo fuojjoq om Oi 02 01 jopjo uIc jni oSnop Q JOSH 30JOAIQ oBeoiqo CHAMBERLAINS COLIC CIIoI ERA AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY This is aperfect reliable medicine lor bowel complaints and oneI that has never bee known to the most severe and dangerous ses For sale by Chas C Davis the leading druggist Mt Vernon A HANDSOME SHOE all leathers allstyles This is ore 5350PRICE The 300 Our Gentlemens Shoe Our Ladies Shoes This is the kind worn hy George and Martha Washing For STYLE und YEAR are unequaled Every pair has the name of HAMILTONBROWN on them which means perfection Our stock of LADIES HATS is complete and we are selling Staple at very low price Come in fit your Girls with Hats that come from F tfe Sons and you save money and be sure of the latest styles GROCERIES we are selling for fun not for profit The best Flour at 65 cents sack The facts in a nutshell are buy of us lull will be sure to getgood goods for little Yours for trade F KRUEGER SONS Spring1 and Summer II Goods- Af Bottom Prices I Large Stock of MEN AND BOYS CLOTHING Jt LADIES TRIMMED HATS AND LADIES DRESS GOODS OF ALL KINDS AVe pay 12 for eggs 9 cents for liens 12 cents meatMand get as much as you can carry t ii A C HIATT I Hiatt Ky =u Having my property I will sell my entire stock o f goods at COST ur Sale will begin now All Goods must be sold in 60 days Including a Line of Win ter Boots and Shoes just received NO JOKE ABOUT IT WE MEAN JUST WHAT WE SAY Private and Auction Sales Every Saturday FOR BARGAINS COME NOW G T WILDIE KENTUCKY J Sole Agents For HamiltonBrownSHOES Guaranteed to give Satisfaction PRICE and will and you Want your or beard a beautiful brown or rich black Use jo vwE or 3hioTD6e people stamped a up Krueger a experiI cts sold Johnson Ayers Pills moustache Ayers Pills Ayers Pills Ayers Pills Keep saying this over and over again The best laxative ioc ViS i BUCKINGHAMS DYE lilT m ORa P1LLJ ca L Jt1tttttt11tt1tt1ttttrttt1tt1tt Willis GriffinP- RRCTICRL = 2 UNDERTAKER 3 3AND = FUNERAL DIRECTOR = Mt Vernon KY 3 = Stock Complete Can furnish on short no = itEtice Metalic Coffins ai d Caskets and have Embalming Edone Pine Hearse attached 3w= ORDERS bywire Promptly FilledM= Phone No 63 = 7t 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111J111111111111111 11111111111111IS JONAS McKENZIE 11 COME COME II 1 1willNotions rrat ar CLOTHING IWe carrry a full line of allasizes awl ages Our goods are right mill out prices are right Yours very truly Phone No 83 JONAS McKENZIE JONAS McKENZIE YOUR BANKING No matter how small no mattter how large THE BANK of MT VERNON will give it careful attention This message applies to the men and the women alike Remember we pay 3 per cent interest on all deposits of 100 or more when left with the bank and not checked upon for a period of six months or more OFFICERS C C WILLIAMS Pres W L RICHARDS Cashier J T ADAMS VicePres A B PUIINISII Asst Casli Fresh Meats Always on Hands We have recently putin a IarR e refrigerator and are prepared to furnish our customers freshmeats at all times Send us your orders which will be promptly filled ICE awlays on hands for sale SIB RAMSEYI- N BASEMENT OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE i MT VERNON SIGNAL MT VERNON KY JULY 27 1906 79 Cull tip No 79 whenyou wont to Corn munIcute with SIGNAL l91 mI4 Co TIME TABLE 22 north m124 p 2 north 332 a tr south 124 pn 21 South 1236 a m AgentidKnterril at the Alt Verne Ivy Iostoflice as second eluss mail mutter PERSONAL Kugeie Mullins is at Crab Orchard Springs W H Baker was in Louisville Monday Vic Brown has moved from Lil to Fariston Willie McReE will teach the Cop pr Creek school V D Walen was up from Cra OnliarJ yesterday Am C C Williams was in B p Stone Gap esterday Mrs Lou B mlware has relurne to her home at Kingston Miss Smith of Versailes is tin guest of Mrs 11 C Millrr Frank Gross the Crab Orchau stock dialer was here Monday Lloyd Maret is again in charge oi the Western Union at London Minor Fish has returned from the west and is now in East Bern stadt tarVictorwork for W J Sparks at Chester Tcnn Burdette Houk has a position with the Belknap Hardware Co Louisville S N Davis will leave about Sep tember for New Mexico where he will locate Mrs W A B Davis is visiting her grandfather John Smithat Livingston Ed Jones left Monday for Arizo na where he has been located for the past year Miss Fannie Colyer is visitin her sister Mrs E B Hansel at Lebanon Junction Mrs Alice Tate has ret urne from a several days visit to 11 and Mrs J T Tate feMrrou were guests of their son R McFerron yesterday Mr PrtheBrowns parents Mr and Mrs A Pennington Sunday Mrs R B Mullins and her daughter Miss Mrgarite Fish spent last week at East Bernstadt with her son Minor Fisi Miss Anna Peebles of Alabama and the Misses Victor of Indianapolis will arrive the first of the week to be the guests of Miss Risse Williams 1 A Bowman was home from from Jackson county this week and told us he was having splendid luck with his large drove of cattle which he is feeding on the pea vi Misses Clarence and Lily Al bright daughters of Dr G H Al- bright of Barbourville are with relatives at Brodhead and will visit relatives here before returning home LOCAL Robert Cox is progressing nicely with his new residence By reason of the cancellation oil leases held in this county by New Domain Oil and Gas Co Standard Oil Co it is reasona to infer that Rockcastle is not oil producing county F P Gross stock dealer here tomorrow Saturday to a number one good driving horse between 4 and 7 years old M have good style andaction wants some good mules If have anything that will fill the meet Mr Gross here tomorrow JSSOIUTloNHaving by agreement dissolved the partnership of Hays Wood we desire to windup all past busines in tbe next sixty days All persons indebted to us either by note or account will please call and settle same at once HAYS WOOD july2C3t Wildie Ky IMake ready for the Brodhead fair Aug 15 16 and 17 Ch11 IiI Renner has sold his bar ber outfit to Chas Dychouse of Lancaster who will arrive today to take chargejThe prospects are brighter and better for a more successful years work of the Brown Memorial School than ever before There will be an ice cream sup per at Rose Hill church Saturday evening The proceeds to go for the benefit of the church Circuit Clerk J F Griffin has been beautifying his property by adding a new coat of paint to his residence and other improvements Mrs Martha Smith aged So Smitheded Wednesday morning alter an illness of three weeks For the pat five years she had been tusk- ing her home with Win Hyshiger The town bjarvl of trustees madt an order at its meeting Saturday privilegestreet for the water works for jail and Court house Rev Brisco of the teahasservices at the Baptist church be on the first and third Sundays instead of the Second and Fourth thai there may be no conflict with the Christian Church SiKAKixc Hon Harvey llelm candidate for Congress in this district will Steakat roillcatlat 2 oVlork toinor inns Saturday July 2S Go mild hear the next Conuivssnian from the hiighih The Brodhual fair catalogues are now in the hands of the Secre Granville Owens for distlibu tion Dont fail to get one read the list of premiums which are more liberal than ever before and when the fair has closed let your name appear in the list of prizewinners C Shipp of CorLmi who has the contract for building J Fishs store room yesterday begin mak timg the concrete blocks The process is a very simple one and from start to finish is much faster thawing brick decidedly better and if any thin cheaper With all the material right on the ground there sabnot have several concrete buildings A daughter of Dilse Hintt color forthre past several months came home a w days ago and has developed SheLis ne gro town Ve uiderslrnd th ier precaution is being taken a there have been no exposures outside of the immediate family D B Wallace was elected President of Kentucky Press Association VednesclayThe live cents a line for all notices about candidates for office The new Executive Committee which PlObablnext meeting place The RockcasUe County Sunday School Association will hold a Di trig Convention at Pine Hill school tuPROGRAMS Morning Session toco A M 1000 Song by Audience Prayer by Rev M G Fish 1015 Welcome address Mrs W C Sympsou 1025 Response Dr W J Childress 1035Reading of Reports 115 Song by Choir I I20Recitation dronertheotheAfternoon Session 130 P M b1eSanganOfferings for County and St work 145 Discussions Pfanguytrictsby SiAlsottn MinistersNTeachingby Ieacber 245 Thirty minutes for choosing delegates for County and State Conventions 3r5 Closing song 33 Adjourn A E ALBRIGHT Pres WVI COX Vice Pre MRS gOUSAN McFERRON DR M L MYERS Teas auRoomsskylight put iover the People Bank for a picture gallery which soon to be opened by a man by the name of Scott The Blown Memorial School vii open September id 1906 with font members of the old facultand four new teachers in chat geeTb pumary teacher comes from Columbia University the intermediate from Western Reserve Cleveland the music teacher from Boston Censervatory of music The work offered last year wil be stronger this year beause ot better equipment in school furnish ing desks blackboard maps etc and in an experienced faculty II addition sewing will be tang fee in grades 4 5 6 and 7 Thir will be a regular teacher in charge of penmanship and music Stenography and typewriting will be offered for the winter term Ilf the class is sufficiently large to warrant giving Miss Lowe time to it Miss Lowe is a gradu ate of a good business college as well as of the Boston Conservatory She has had several years of prac tical experience in city office work All this will make her a valuable cher NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF ROCKCASTLE COUNTY The taxes los the year 1906 have peen due since March 1st and you ire notified to meet me or one of ny deputies at the following places cud dates named Mt Vernon Monday Aug 67 Rockford Thursday Aura 9 Dispmnnta Friday Aug 10 Green Proctors Store Friday Aug 10 Vildie Saturday u Pongo Saturday ItIIH leadLivingston Saturday Aug t Mullins Station Saturday Aug 18 Level Green Monday Aug 20 yOrlandoConway Sa urday Aug 25 This notice is given in accordance with Article 8 Section 14 o tIe New Revenue Act and I will be at these places between u and 3 oclock on the day named The New Revenue Act requires that all delinquent taxpayers be dvertiztdand the penalty under id act is put on Nov 1st instead of Dec tft Meet me at the above named places without fail All parties under New Revenue laseuher will be deemed delinquent and Mareport them to the County Court Clerk as delinquent and then the Clerk is required under the law to issue tax warrants which will then b returned hc into the hands of tIle Sheriff for collection Added to the tax will be six per cent it eterest six per cent penalty and the commission as allowed bylaw to the Sheriff for collecting execu tons which will make the cost in terest and commission euual if not exceed the tax I attach this little notice for the information of the taxpayers and 1 hope that I will taxpayers to as a All are paidIthey own property or not er R L McFERRON Sheriff Rockcastle County 4 BltO D HEAD Roy Britton of Somerset is here painting Mrs J M Clarks Lunch House which is making a new ap pearance Misses Lyda Hilton and Maud Forbes have returned from Lancaster after spending a pleasant month with Mrs R H Batson Ota Frith is in St Louis on busi goneateto accepted a very lucrative position with Coforvisiteddis her CutsMcwithtvearegerslad hasary re JuscrippledforCherry have returned home from Lancaster where they visited Mr and Mrs R H BatsonMiss morningfor CSec H sick this weekWe are reliably inform ed that W T Evans and family will move to our city Come on Bro Evans with your good family as our gate are opcu to such nice people as yen and yoursMrs Luella Weaver has returned item a two weeks visit to her sister Mrs Ed Williams at Junction City Mrs Mollie S Durham and son Brack have returned house from an extended visit to Liberty Louis ville and Elizabethtown She was accompaniel house by her niece Miss Cora VesleyEd Rogers spent last Sunday in Middlesboro the guest of Miss Miggie Pleasant We are glad to say that Dr M Clark is regaining his eyesight We hope to see him able to renew asthimselfeone of the best physicians in South eastern Kentucky Society is do ing herself proud in Brodheid this week The Albright Hotel is on of gayety and splendor They have there as their Quests Misses Clarence and Lille Albright and Nora Earner of Barbourville Miss es Risse Williams and Alza Thompson of Mt Vernon I had the pleasure of meeting these girls and was certainly treated royally in every respect And if Mrs Al bright and son Manly cant makt you enjoy yourself while there you had better stay at home all lone and weep because society will not charm y u my where Miss Ollie Rash is able to be up after being confined to her bed four weeks with typhoid fever Mrs A E Albright is some better The Fair is not long off and be sure and remember these dates Aug m5IG and 17 It will be the hest one yetLllli 1Sf Ui- Mr F 1fromnsMrs J T Chewning re JunctionSwas acc home by her daughter Mrs Dave Reigle and lautily1r Claud man is spending few days in uicille and Glasgow this week Miss Mary Pope returned Satur accompaniedf es Lyda Cook and Cora Adams are visiting friends in Paint Lick and Cincinnati this weekIr and burs W C Mullins returned to their home at LaFallette Thursday after a pleasant visit with friends ind relatives hireMiss Leila S unhrook is visiting Mrs Sallie Geixrll at Crab Orchard for a few lays Miss Annie Griffin is the charming guest of Miss George Cress of Corbin this weekleis Mollie Roulette of Paris is spend ing several dcys with her parents r and Mrs James McGuire tiers Jail Cooper and son Archie jf Louisville are the guests of Mrs W W Wright and Mrs Jacob Sambrook Mrs W J Cbildress suit family visited her patentsj Mr and Mrs A H McFerron in the weekiMrs Nathan McWhorter was call ed to Cincinnati Tuesday to the bedside of her daughter Mrs Cha Harris Mrs J A McRoberts returned Saturday from Penuiugton Infirmary very much improved Dr R A Bogs of Richmond was in town Sunday calling on one ofonr pretty visilorsMaster Geo Sambrook and John Stuckey spent a few days this week at the home of Mr and Mrs A H McFerrcn Rev Walton and family leave this week for Sharpsburg where he has accepted work By some mistake of the Board we failed to get Mr Valtou as our pastor as wean had hoped We are indeed sor ry to have to give Mr and Mrs Walton upleisArthur Bourne has returned from a short trip through the Westhie and Mrs Drummond left Sunday for a month visit to friends in Knoxville Mrs andMondayMrs Tubbs Mrs Sue Mullins is IrsWWWthisaband friendsAfeedelightful Thosenc andIFish was theguest of Miss Cora Adams Sunday and Monday Miss Fish was on Bertistadtinl ofMtLouisvilIeisMcRoberts I = I I 0as e I Shoes that are Shoes all through Shoes that will give your feet a ulIlturonghIShoes that will make your purse We Have Thelll- We Want to Sell Thell You Need Them Gets Get U a Trad- erf T PATRIOT Shoe for Men 350 made Iy specialty work men cut out of the eanII Soles bet oak tanned TOT Stylish Serviceable ante MARBRANDSIIOES ARE BETTER 539 I SHOE m Comtortable AVe many styles of lasts toes tutu leathers The Patriot has the Star on the l tool which s guarantees the Quality I The tt PILGRIM Shoe for MenS1 I line of shoes is made of best box call strong and sturdy as a battleship comfortable as a glove They will tojI suit you no matter hov 1 much you kick I have This Another great pllialtyIShoe Made s tic people the Patriot and is in every way tire lest 300 Shoe on the mar fact AVe carry it in ImFamilyIiiRaiLYss 1STAR 51itstar on the Heel means Quality I The PEER Shoe for Men A Shoe that will wear like a steel rail It is made of long wearing leather lull the soles are put on to stay One pair of the PEER will make you our friend The PEER Will Cost You 2 75 It carries the StarTherefore its Better I LL Sfar Brand Shoes Are Beffer FISHS CASH STOREChurch St Mt Vernon iKeunedys Laxative Honey and is the originial laxative cough syrup and combines the qualities necessary to relieve the cough and purge the system of cold Con tains no opiates Chas C Davis RENT PAYS FOR THE i LAND FERTILE SCTIONS OF THE SOUlHESl1rHEUELANDSEIJLS FOR 5 PER ACRE One of the remarkable thinc about Eastern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana is the fact that clear ed land rents for 5 per acre cash and can be bought for 7 5 to 15 per acre It costs 6 to 10 an acre to clear it Other improve necessary are slight and inexpen siveThe soil is rich alluvial or made It produces a bale of cotton per acre worth 45 to 60 This ac counts for its high rental value Other crops such as corn small grains grasses vegtables and fruits thrive as well Alfalfa yields 4 to 6 cuttings a ton a cutting and brings 10 to- Sl6 per ton In other sections of these states and in Texas as well the rolling or Iiill land is especially adapted to tock raising and fruit growing Land is very cheap 5 to 10 improved farms 10 15 to 25 per acreThe new White River country ffers many opportunities for set lers High rolling flue water it is naturally adapted to stock and ruit raising Can bebought as ow as 3 per acre See this great country for your self and pick out a location De criptive literature with maps ree on request The Missouri PacificIron Moan min System Lines sell reduced rate roundtrip tickets on first and hird Tuesdays of each month to points in the Vest and Southwest good returning 21 days with stop vers For descriptive literature time tables etc write to R T G MATTHEWS Traveling Passenger Agent Louisville Ky or HC TOWNSKND General Pass enger Ticket AgentSt Louis Mo sAaPspaDigests QUICK RELIEF FOR ASTH MA SUFFERERS Foleys Honey and Tar affords immediate relief ao asthma suffer ifaken0 Davis MONUMENTS ARE trORJ T ENnuRirGby J FOA RiRSM0BRIDGEPORT CONN IJejiresented ROCKCASTLE BRONZE CO lIT VEKNON KY Samples of White Bronze Designs Lit Prices atj store No cost to call up phone No loo from coun ty points to talk Bronze matters mr23tf AForThe Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the- signature of 10 G erature etc Fishs 2dUOO 81IgADS AND FANCIES G IINFASHIONABlE I I o MllllNRY I o 0 00The newest styles and- o latest creations from the J Last 3 gHATS BELlSo8 g EMBROIDERIESORGANDIES o 1 CAPS 6 Ig3 8l1T VERNON KY Leeeoeee 011salvebruises piles and boils yield to De Witts Witch Hazel Salve Should keep o box on hand at all times to provide for emergencies For years the standard but followed by many imitators B sure you get the genuine DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Chas C Davis POLITICS AND POLITICIANS The lion Robeit B Franklin of Frankfort is considering the matter of entering the race for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernorThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will open headquarters in Chicago August preparatory to making a vigorous campaign in the Middle Vest Charles F Murphy says that it is possible that Tammany Hall would suppoit William R Hearst for the Democratic nomination for Goveinor of New York The Democratic Executive Com mittee of the Eighth Mississippi Congressional District has formally declared John Sharp Williams the party candidate candidate for Con gjess from trnt distort t i ik 4ll1 r Jf6 e9 S lLaf WHVj MONTHS COME DCFORE THtiT 4r scorTS EULsioN suFPLiea rns cxntA Trzri z7H t HOURISHMStVT SO CCSSAKr tC t ly THC OF EOTH MOTHZttAfJa fi CHILD St Scud fur lice saijiile scvrr UOWNM Q 4oq4L51ar1rcct M 9C and ioo all ChmutsJ The hearing of the Castellane divorce suit in Paris will begin either October 19 or October 24 A fire swept through Kirklin hUh Tuesday causing damage of 75 OO STI M ULATION WITHOUT IRRITATION During the summer kidney ir regularities are often caused by ex cessive drinking or being overheated Attend to lie kidneys at once lusing FuleyV Kidney Cure Chas C Davis CIUHINO OKIKU Until further notice we will furnish the Siginl and Weekly Courier Journal for S i 50 a year or the Signaltiid Louisville Herald Daily for 2 cn Cash must accompany all ciders under this arrangement New indictmsu t liu e beets re turned in Chicago against Conelius P Shea atfortytwo other lllor leaders and officials Two sufeblowers were capturtd at Rockford after an exciting chace which covered thirty blocks WAR AGAINST CONSUMPTION All nations are endeavoring to cheek the ravages consumption the white plaene that claims s many victims each year Ioley Houey and Tar cures coughs and culds perfectly and you are in n v d mger of consumption Do no1 risk your health by takiig some ui known prep ration when Foley HDiiev and Tar is safe and certain in results The genuine is in yellow package Chas C Davis 1fr k TP143 RII jj- LUfflBfjl SalATIGA NEURALGiA and KIDNEY TROUBLE I5- D80PS talicn Jntcrnnlly rids the blood of the polsouou mutter and acids which gjj are the direct uros cf these diseases eitei it rds almost In IIcureBR P LAND Itwillafl RbeumatlsmlNeural as It Is entirely fco of opium alcohol laudanum and other Inrredlenu cocalnel Larga Size Bottle GDROPS 9100 For Sale Jy Urutsirl 8WAIIIOI IHEUMATIO Dept 80 160 Lake Street Chicago w A HARD LOT of troubles to contend with spring from a torpid liver and blockaded bowels unldss you awaken them to their proper action with Dr Kings New Life Fills the pleasant esi and most effective cure for con stipation They preuent Append 2SCIKKXTUCKV FAIR HjIESj The folowing are dates fixed til holding Kentucky Fairs for H 6 as far as reported Officers of fairs are requested to report to us any omission or correction of dates daysIMnclisonville July 315 days Dinville August i 3Jdays Hnrrodsburg Aug j4 days claysIAugust 2rt days Shepherdsvillf August 21tdays Lawreuceburg August 214 days Springfield August 22 4 days IJarbourville August 223 days Guthrie August 233 days Nicholasville August 2S2 days Shelby ville August 294 days London August 2Y3 days Florence August 294 days Bardstovn August 29 4 days daysIlays 42Mouticello Sept 111 days Glasgow Sept I2j days Falmouth Sept 264 day Cascasweet makes sweet babies sweeter A vegetable comctui for colic summer complaints dhrroholaIless Crying peevish fretful chil Iren like the taste of Caseiswect A vegtable corrective for teethin coliJ belching dianhoea clysen len constipation less of skep an the many stomach and hovel com Plats ofmfant and thiild Sold by Chas C Davis rt11I ONLY RAILROAD SOUTH i EQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATIC ELICTCB- LOCK f NALS AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY FROU CINCINNATI TO All IMPORTANT CITIES SouthjSoutheast tIand Southwest tIDMEEEKEtS FiT JgHCKiNCzCITA Ill E Malts St Lexington Ky W A QARRETT General Manager W C IUNEA Cincinnati O THE ORiGBNAL LAXATiVE COUGH SYRUP Far nil Coujhs and arEists in expeliinjr Colds from the tem by gently movinc the bowels A certain m ACtwhoopingcough 1 Nearly all other cough cures are 41 constipating tespecially those Vr containine Opiates Kennedys Laxative tHoneyTarrnovesthe J no Opiates KENNEDYl The Clover Dl03I som and tho Honey Leo is on bottle everyI Tri LAXATIVE jUB Ji tVTTile C DcWiTP co CHICAGO U S A old by CHAS C DAVIS liKWrKK iK INTMrKTIl Ioll TAiKII THAT CONTAIN AliiKtruv as ni rfirv wili surely JIIIvtiCllt of snull ciiiiiilitflv leriinie hI uliolc sibtfin vvlifii Ilittrinj it tlinuJi tli imi rdiis lIriej Such nicies sliould never 11 usiil exeit on prcsoiijaioii froii nMili lilc ilisiiiiis is lliMhiina c they do Is tn ttlul t IIIH jjnoil you win JeiIiV iUri from ill all Halls ta tarrii iin muu frt Iltr r rinnty TiUlii O coIi1 ills iii miTiiiy 5tiIitttiLii inlernally sir itlir rlly iijitn tIlt lioilll iiiiiniis Mrlaees of tie slein tin IIi Halls Clll1rrlIIre IU v ynti et e tieniiin it is taken inlerniily aril inaile inlnleI Oiiio IIF J Cheney ii Teslinioniitls incSd liy 1ruieegists Iriett Tie per Iott- Iiae Malis Ia ily Pills fut consti ati 0- 1VANTEIl3y Chicago wholesale and until order 110113 assistnit manager man or woman for this jcnnty ind adjoining territory Salary 20 find expenses paid adalllcclIlVik pleasant position permnnent li investineu or experience reqnir- el Spare time valuable Write at once for full particulars and en close selladdressed envelope Ad dress GENERAl MANAGua 134 E Lake St Chicago KilL THE COUCH l AND CURE THE LUFSGS IWITH fl1r r Bmg S s I n tJ tlVja M rrI1 IJf II fOR roL OKSUMPTiON CUGHS and OLDS Price iiiIi SOcSIOO Free Trial H d Quickest Cure for all tsurCGtfi and LUNG TROUB BACK g ROGKGA3TLE- Rea I Estate Co T VKKXOX KV 0 1111 No IThis farm of fU7 acres located on Neyro creek near It roil head Ky Is one of the best farms in the comity aril will IIsold at a bargain till owiierlhiuy iinahlo to roprly look after same because of his health The entire farm is under fince ill acres in cultivalion balance Miiihered thre hoiibus on farm rood lJti d springs and ii1antyir Hlt- Ileul water Also food orihard- KAKM Xo lio acres near llroi head wil fenced plenty food water o ollhlIcl Ikllty tjiiiitr tt tII1 iivin glInt ivrfidence and one lenni ouse Cui lIe bought for IittJ Itt 1Iulin IJIalls in oultivjitiou tat lLiitaI thnlvivtl two houses and well watered Wil sell clieaj- FAMM NO SIt ures ueai Freelni cliiirel splendid residece cuid- most desiraVde farm 1rke J2001l a hLl min FA KM NO 10Ihrl tra ts of land in one body consisting of Ki ij allcllj 5 acres located on Made Fork creek in Lincoln county Ivy and about li miles from trali On hard on- rab Onhard and 1ee Lick road These lauds sure located near the resi lences of deoijje IJines and Ieorje- Gooch About 7 acres of this land is bottom land and a yood pall of it is up land lout levitttuuul is g ood farming lanil A bargain at F3uuethird eash the balance in one and two years GAP NTKKIJ VAKK FOR inns Itching Blind Hleeding Prottud rg Pikc Druggists are authoriz d to rt fund money if PAXO OINr MKNTfails tv cure in 6 to 14 das 0 fOLEY S KIDNEY CURE WILL CURE YOU of any case of Kidney or Bladder disease that is not beyond the reach of medicine Take it at once Do not risk having Brights Dis ease or Diabetes There is delayI50c and Bottles REFUSE SUBSTITUTES CHAS C DAVIS WiNCHESIiir NthHAc Loaded Black Powder Shells Shoot Strong and Evenly Are Sure Fire Will Stand Reloading They Always Get The Game For Sale Everywhere For that- DandruffI There is one thing that will cure itAyers Hair Vigor It is a regular scalpmedicine It quickly destroys the germs which cause this disease The unhealthy scalp becomes I healthy The dandruff disap pears had to disappear A healthyscalp means a great deal to youhealthy hair no dandruff no pimplesno eruptions I The best kind of a testimonial Sold for over sixty years f Made by J Aycr Ca Lowell MaUIS- manurcturers or I WAS IN ioirHEALTH FOR YEARS Ira W Kelley of Mansfield Pa writes I was in poor health for two years suffering from kidney and bladder trouble and speat con siderable money consulting physi cians without obtaining any mark led benefit but was cured by Foleys Kidney Cure and I desire to add my testimony that it m ly be the cause of restoring the health of oth ets Refuse substitutes Chas C Davis OASTOBIA l tiwlitre oeIyfi tel Ot a ItiN antIIll FL1S5 llSlOLSitTlSHilltt lititit Jtc- ourI3Zr3 lIil iIStJut10 41nteSinvn IfuuI c5II sixlArrseyu Istrtelal SliotlIefltcrIhrolnr iunfnm itnncer rice stan1s J STEVENS ARMS AND TOOL CO 6Ir odhead11arbJe VVork BRO IlEA Granite ai d Marble Monuments and I omhstoies niMitifacUired ALBRIGHT FRANCISCO Also Agents for Iron Fence- D B AinuGHT Manager k= a tewarlV Iron j Fence fCheaperthan wood Will last a lifetime 18- 04ritwr IM 1RORR4PAKf CINCINNATI O er ot Iroi cain loiut prices surprise jon Can ind lee t AN IDLA- LIjoCAPJON TRIPT- O YELI OWSJONEPAl PEJISONALLY CONDUCTED linerary of Trip Denver Colorado Springs Crippk Creek Harden of the Gods Mani tou PIKES PEAK Grand River Canon Royal Gorge Ole uwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogdtn Salt Air Marshall Pass Black Can on and by DAYS IN WONDER FUL YELLOWSTONE PARK Cost of Trip Expense of an ordinary trip of this nature has been fully consider ed and minimied so as to be with in easy react of all Special Sleepers Will leave Louisville JJight oj July 25th Eor full particulars Write J H GALLAGHER 1907 Barret Avenue Louisville STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL- CONVENTION Ashland Catlettsburg Ky Ai gIst 21 22 23 The Furtyfirst Annual Conven tion of the Kentucky Sunda School Association meets at Giyff side Park midway between A landand Catlettsburg on the abo d itts A strong and attractive pi gram has hen arranged Besidt tie best tlnt of our own stai Mr W C tearce of Chicago D ill M Ham of Nashville Re William Megginsnn of Richtuotui and Dr C Humble of Parkersbuig V Va will be with us Every Su day school of the state is entitled t epresentation and a school ci make no wiser use of its fund than to send a delegate to the Stan COlt venention He will receive an bring to his school an inspiratio that can come from no othe source If the school cannot affon to pay the way o i its delegate thei it should selet some one who able and willing to pay his OWl way By all means the school shouli be represented All official dele gates will be entertained free 01 the payment of one dallar to the lo cal committee on entertainment Those desiring entertainment should secure credentials from tht county president or the county sec reary and send their names at once to Mr W J Craig Ashland The railroads have granted re ducedrates There will therefore be a comparatively inexpensive trip and at the same time one of the most delightful and profitable any Iundayshool worker can take Delegates desiring entertainment should send name to Mr W J Craig Ashland before August iu For program and full p niculars address E A FOX General Sec retar Louisville Trust Building Louisville Ky A TRAGIC FINISH A watchmans neglect permitted a leak in the great North Sea dyke hich a childs finger could have stopped to become a ruinous break ilevasting an entile province of Holland In like manner Kenneth Mclver of Vanceboro Me per milled a little cold to go unnoticed until a tragic finish was only avert ed by Dr Kings New Discovery He writes Three doctor gave me to die of infllamntionup lung caus ed by n neglected cold but Dr Kings New Discovery saved my life Guaranteed best cough and cold cure at all druggists soc amd i 00 Trial bottle free Threats of Boycott have been made against 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once for free copies of books describing this wonderful country and for full information about lOst of tickets etc LCBARRY T P A Cottoj Belt Route 82 Todd BHg Louisville Ky IDYLWILDT- HE BEST PLACE IN ROOK CASTLE TO BUY Drugp Stationery Qigarp Tobacco paint Oil and patent Medicines Diseases of Children A SpeciaFfy S C DAVIS Prop PHONE No 53 MAIN STREET MT VERNON KY 3CX f f GRANVILLE OWENS i iIUNDERTA ERI Ky I COMPLETE LINE Collins Caskets and Robes All Mail Telograph or Tele phone orders Promptly Filled ccxx oant IIernlJilt iiQlajl rMAGAZINE SEOTION MT VERNON ROCKCASTLE COUNTY KY JULY 27 1906 Yages L to a COUNTESS OF WARWICK A STRIKING BEAUTY OF ENGLISH COURT WHO IS FRIEND OF WORKINGMEN Has Accomplished Great Philan thropy Foundling Girls Schools in Dairying Poultry EtcProminent- in Politics England has at least one titled woman whose wealth and position have not proved sufficient to blind her to conditions which surround less for tunate men and women She is the Countess of Warwick long the reigning beauty of King Edwards court and one of the most famous women in two continents The Countess has recently come in to prominence through her paruipa tion in the English elections and is a strong advocate and supporter of Will Thorne candidate of the dock la borers for a seat in the House of Com mons The Countess strongly sup ports the contention of the laboring element for a labor party in parliament and gowned in the most bewitching of Parisian frocks and in a red automo bile she has been stirring things up pretty lively in the fortyfive parliamentary districts in which representatives of organized labor were running for the House of Commons SENT DELEGATION TO AMERICA This very democratic Countess re cently sent a delegation of twentyfive women to the United States to study labor conditions hero Each was in trusted with a different mission One visited stenographers and typewriters another went to tailor shops and still another to the factories where young men and women are employed and the entire labor field was adequately coy ered The Countess defrayed all expenses of the trip and is now using the material which her delegation brought back to her for speeches toI the laboring classes Not long ago the Countess addressed a tremendous crowd of workmen Her stage was a tradesmans wagon and hundreds of workmen went without their dinners in order to hear her speech She was given a great ova tion called the men comrades and THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK friends and urged them to strain every effort to get a labor party in parliamentYou are the empire de clared the Countess and this with a succession of spirited assertions she made were lustily cheered by the la boring men The Countess of Warwick is one of Englands most famous women Be fore the succession of her husband to the earldom she was Lady Brooke and gained the nickname of Babbling Brooke for having told some t ngs In connection with the famous bac carat party at Tranby Croft which proved one of the most sensational news stories of the year The Prince of Wales now King Edward VII was a member of the party and a subse quent witness in the case TO TEACH DAIRYING AND CHICKEN GROWTH In the past few years the Countess of Warwick has devoted nearly her entire time to philanthropic and char ity work She once managed a linen and lace store but the venture proved unsuccessful Later she founded a school and dairy work and poultry keeping for young girls a home for crippled children and a technical ICbool CANDIED FLOWERS England Has Begun Strange De mands for Sugared Blossoms From the United States One of the latest developments of luxury is said to be the candying of fragrant flowers The notion is not altogether new for violets have long been made Into confections for the palate as well as into boquets for the olfactory organs At any rate it seems that the fash Ion has acquired a new Impetus of late and a candied violet is coming to be regarded as an acceptable bonne bouche to be presented to a lady There is also it is said a demand for sugared rose petals which is being catered to by some enterprising artists in sugar It can hardly be pretended that flowers made into sweets are of any medicinal efficacy though damask rose leaves have long held a recog nized place in the materia medica Whether the violet has any thera peutic qualities does not appear though the leaves not the flower have just now some reputationouts- ide the medical facultyas a cure for cancer The best that can be hoped for if flowers are to be eaten as well as to be seen and smelled is that they may in all cases prove to be innocuous It is a nice question whether the perfume is always a safe guidePerhaps the modern craze is after all only a form of luxury A candied violet or a dish of rose leaves cun ningly prepared for the tea table could not possibly enter into the category of cheap sweets for the millions and it is understood that the sugar trust is not interested BREAKS BY CONGRESS Peculiar Mistakes Due to Tremen dous Amount of Work Transacted Just Before Adjournment In the hurry and bustle of get away day in Congress a few errors slipped in to upset the calculations of party leaders One of these was the signing of the agricultural appropri ation bill by the President before that measure contained the signature of the Speaker of the House of Representa tives Of course this oversight was corrected but the question then arose as to the importance of having the bill signed by the Speaker and the Vice President Their signatures merely certify that the bill has passed their respective houses the important fact being that they have been passed by the House and Senate For this rea son it is not regarded as being abso lutely indispensable that a bill should be signed by the presiding officer of the House All that is necessary is to establish the fact that it has been so passedAnother break was the presiden tial approval of the sundry civil bill containing an item appropriating 3000000 for a site for a new de partmental building in Washington This item had been dropped out of the bill in conference but the enrollment clerks failed to notice the omission and so included this item in the copy of the bill laid before the President for his signature When the error was discovered a resolution was adopted by both houses of Congress repealing the feature of the bill making the 3000000 appropriation- It is not strange that these mis takes occur as all of the employes of both the Senate and House during the last few days of Congress have an enormous amount of work shoved upon them so that when Congress actually adjourns many of them are ready to take to their beds for several days in order to recuperates CANADIAN RECIPROCITY Northern Sister Would Like Such Arrangement But is Waiting Move by This Country A letter from Ottawa Canada states that the question of reciprocrity between Canada and the Unite States is by no means dead as was clearly shown by the recent debate on the Canadian budget in a number of speeches which while they admitted that the United States did not appear to care for reciprocity it would if it could be brought about on mutually advantageous terms oe a good thing for both sides of the line Many of the crown ministers and even Sir Wil frid Laurier himself the premier and described in England as the foremost statesman in the British Empire are favorable to CanadianAmerican reciprocity if it can be had Sir Richard Cartwright minister of trade and commerce said recenuy that there could be no better British policy than to do everything possible to encourage good relations with the United States Senator Lougheed the conservative leader in the Senate stated that he thought no higher work could be found by King Edward than to promote the good relations of the two peoples and- o bind more closely together the two AngloSaxon nations He knew no happier way of strengthening the bond between the AngloSaxon peoples on the North American Continent than for the King and Queen to visit the shores of North America at the pres ent time If reciprocity is not visibly to the front today it is because public opinion in Canada reg rds reciprocity as unattainable and the position of the antireciprocity men who are for the moment supreme as unassailable Hence and for no other reason reciprocity sentiment is put on the shelf until called for again and an ostentatious appearance of indifference is manifested in Canada which will be stiffly maintained as long as the United States government makes no forward movement that public opinion in the Dominion can accept as sincere and based on a spirit of reasonableness and fair play To those who are able to read be tween the lines the announcement of the finance minister that the changes to be made in the Canadian tariff when revision takes pace next session must depend upon such new conditions as may have occurred is obviously meant for the people at Washington who stand in the way of reciprocity and those in London who have blocked a mutual preference between the mother country and Canada It is aI warning and may mean much or little as circumstances or conditions dictate A GROCERY IN CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE MANN PLAYS SALESMAN AND DRUGGIST TO UNMASK FRAUDS Short Weight and Fraudulent Foods the Lure of Many Department Stores and Mail Order Houses Honest Dealers Handicapped by DeceptionsWhen pure food bill was before the House of Representatives a few weeks ago intense interest was dis played by the members of that body in a grocery store established by Representative Mann of Illinois Mr Mann had been given a special privi lege by the House committee having the bill In charge to demonstrate the manner in which the ordinary food REPRESENTATIVE MANN products of the country are adulter ated and how the consumer is de frauded The space in front of the speakers desk resembled a small section of a delicatessen store and a corner grocery with cereals jams jellies tins of peas tomatoes corn prepared spices bottles of whiskey and wine imnorted sausages brandied cherries and other edibles and drink ables scattered over two tables Representative Mann proceeded to demonstrate to the House through these various food products the necessity for a national pure food law One of the first articles taken up by the Congressman was the ordinary condimentpepperwhich to the lay mind is considered too cheap for any manufacturer to spend time in adul terating He read circulars from nu merous concerns offering for sale a certain grade of adulterant which could be used to produce pepper or almost any other of the spices with some slight modification As he scat tered a package of this over his desk the members in the vicinity started back in order to avoid the usual sneez ing which follows the inhalation of a small quantity of pepper But they were reassured by the groceryman that it was not harmful for while it was called pepper it was nothing but ground olive pits He convulsed the House when he read the price list of adulterants showing that they were offered to the trade for 420 a ton in fiveton lots and that at that rate they were guaranteed to make the finest black pepper which as everyone knows is sold by the ounce He made the statement that even the pepper berry itself was adulterated by a cleverly contrived manufacture of tap ioco colored with lamp black Possibly the most striking demon stration of the afternoon was one with a bottle of red cherries These cher ries it was explained were picked green and that after being bleached out white by the use of a powerful acid had been colored the brilliant red by the use of coal tar dyea deadly poison if used in large quanti ties Representative Mann dipped a piece of white cloth in the juice of these cherries and it partook of a brilliant red as though it had just come from a dyers Olive oil explained Mr Mann is a product which is in most cases adul terated In many instances the coun terfeit is merely American cotton seed oila wholesome and satisfactory dressing for salad but it costs about r as much as real olive oil and the American buyer certainly does not care to purchase a dressing for four times its actual worth- HIVELESS HONEY One of the freak exibits was a bottle of honey which in order to complete the assurance of the buyer that the article was genuine contained as if by accident the body of a real bee yet the whole mess was pure and simple glucose and had never been near a hive much less a comb The hive probably was a ten story fac tory in one of the large cities A bottle of Freezine was exhibited by Mr Mann who explained that this remarkable article was guaranteed to preserve meat from the action of the air and stop decay While he admitted that it would stop the action of nature on meats he claimed that the preservative itself was actually poison ous containing sulphide of soda with red coal tar dye and could not be used safely upon human food The public is unwittingly defrauded to a great extent through short weight and short measure in package goods explained Mr Mann and he insisted that the manufacturers should be com pelled to state on the label the quan tity contained in the bottle or carton In line with this was a dramatic demonstration when the Chicago pure food expert held up before the House a i CoryrShYed t8g4By Harter L Broers Synopsis of preceding chapters at end of this Installment bottle supposed to contain a quart of vinegar which when poured into a large graduate did not nearly reach the quart mark thereonin fact was three inches below it Raisins currants and numerous other articles of food are apparently put up in pound packages and so the buyer considers but in fact few of those on the market really con tain a full pound- DEPARTMENT STORE BARGAINS It is the department stores and mail order houses said the demon strator which make profit from short weight cans and undersized bottles We are seeking to protect the legiti mate grocery and the honest canner from men who are willing to make money by depriving the people of things they think they are getting All that we urge is that an approx imate weight or measure may be put upon each one of these packages and then if the public chooses to buy a smaller package at a smaller price it may do so but the manufacturers and dealers must not any longer de ceive the people as to how much they are buying BREAKFAST FOODS A DELUSION On the tables where Mr Mann ably but silently assisted by Mr Stevens of Minnesota acted now as grocery man now as druggist and now as bartender there were a dozen or more packages of breakfast foods with their familiar labels A reference to table weights and skillful dropping of pack ages upon a balance scale In front of him enabled Mr Mann to show that in a great many cases the public paid full price for an abnormal amount of pasteboard box In scarce any case did the prepared food weigh twice as much as the box and in many in stances food and package were in near ly equal proportion Everybody knew as Mr Mann stated that 25 per cent of all the coffee used in the United States is sold as a mixture of Java and Mocha He was prepared to show from official FOLLOWED WRINKLED WOMAN figures that white we used last year more that a billion pounds of coffee and while about 250000000 pounds were supposed to be Mocha and Java there were actually imported into this country last year only a fraction over 2000000 pounds of Mocha and 10000 000 pounds of Java or approximately less than 13000000 pounds or only 5 per cent of the popular blend It is staggering to know 95 per cent of the people who think they drink Mocha and Java every day have been de ceived and yet the facts seem to be rather plain Figures like these however al though ordinarily impressive and con vincing did not attract so much at tention in the House the members were so absorbed in the prac tical demonstration of the extent to which fraudulent manufacturers of food products have been willing to go In the way of swindling thefpubllc Praise New YorkerTo tell the truth we are proud of this hotel Chicagoan Well I cant blame you altogether old man I honestly think myself that its the finest between Chicago and London CHAPTER XI For a time Sir Nigel was very moody and downcast with bent brows and eyes upon the pommel of his saddle Edricson Ford and Terlake rode behind him The four rode alone for the archers had passed a curve in the road though Al clumpclumpglimpse of the sparkle of steel through the tangle of leafless branches Hide by my side I entreat of you said the knight reining in his steed that they might come abreast of him For since it hath pleased you to fol low me to the wars it were well that you should know how you may best serve me 1 doubt not Terlake that you will show yourself a worthy son of a valiant fa youEdricsontime house from which all men know that you are sprung And first I would have you bear very steadfastly in mind that our setting forth is by no means for the purpose of gaining spoil or exacting ran som though it may well happen that such may come to us also We go to France and from thence I trust to Spain in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory But what is this among the trees It is a shrine of Our Ladyft sail Terlake and a blind beggar who lives by the alms of those who worship there A shrine cried the knight Then let us put up an orison And pulling off his cap and clasping his hands he chanted in a shrill voice Benedictus dominus Deus meus qui docet manus meas ad proelium ct digitos meos ad bellum A strange figure he seemed to hugehorsewintry sun shimmering upon his bald head It is a noble prayer he remarked putting on his hat again and it was taught to me by the noble Chandos youfatherruth upon you seeing that I am myself like one who looks through a horn window while his neighbors have the clear crystal Yet by St Paul there is a long stride between the man who bath a horn casement and him who is walled in on every hand Alas fair sir cried the blind man I have not seen the blessed blue of hea ven this twoscore years since a levin flash burned the sight out of my head You have been blind to much that is goodly and fair quoth Sir Nigel but you have also been spared much that is sorry and foul But by St Paul we must on or our Company will think that they have lost their captain somewhat early in the venture Throw the man my purse Edricson and let us go Alleyne lingering behind bethought him of the Lady Lorings counsel and reduced the noble gift which the knight had so freely bestowed to a single which beggar with many mumbled blessings thrust away into his wallet Then spurring his steed young squire rode at the top of his speed after his companions and overtook them just at spot where the trees fringe off into moor anu the straggling hamlet of Hordle lies scattered on either side of the winding and deeply rutted track The throughthesquires closed up upon them they heard followedbythe ranks of the archers Another minute brought them up with the rearguard where every man marched with his beard on his shoulder and a face which was agrin with merriment By the side of the column walked a huge redheaded with his hands thrown out in argument and expostulation while close at his heels followed a little wrinkled woman who poured forth a shrill volley thwackfrombeenbeating produceI trust Aylward said Sir Nigel gravely as he rode up that this doth not mean that any violence hath been offered to women If such a thing happened I tell you that the man shall hang though he were the best archer that ever wore brassart Nay my fair lord Aylward answered with a grin it is violence which is offered to a man He comes from Hordle and this is his mother who hath come forth to welcome him You rammucky lurden she was howl ing with a blow between each catch of bet breath you shammocking yaping overlong goodfornaught I will teach myfaithlookintbackgo to France as an archer to give blow3 and to take them To France quotha cried the old dame Bide here with me and I shall warrant you more blows than you are like to get in France If blows be what you seek you need not go further than Ilordle By my hilt the good dame speaks truth said Aylward It seems to be the very home of them What have you to say you clean shaved galleybagger cried the fiery dame turning upon the archer Can 1 not speak with my own son but you must let your tongue clack A soldier quotha and never a hair on his face I have seen a better soldier with pap for food and swaddlingclothes for harness Stand to it Aylward cried the archers amid a fresh burst of laughter bigJohnyears and cannot abide to be thwarted It is kindly and homely to me to hear Let voice and to feel that she is behind me But I must leave you now mother for the way is overrough for your feet gownifI will bring Jinny a silver penny so goodbye to you and God have you in his keeping Whipping up the little woman he lifted her lightly to his lips CLOSE AT HIS HEELS A LITTLE because the the the the bowman and then taking his place in the rank again marched on with the laughing Corn panyThat was ever his way she cried appealing to Sir Nigel who reined up his horse and listened with the gravest cour tesy He would jog on his own road for all that I could do to change him First be must be a monk forsooth and all because a wench was wise enough to turn her back on him Then he joins a ras cally crew and must needs trapse off to the wars and me with no one to bait the fires if I be out or tend the cow if I be home Yet I have been a good mother to him Three hazel switches a day have I broke across his shoulders and he takes no more notice than you have seen him today Doubt not that he will come back to you both safe and prosperous my fair dame quoth Sir Nigel Meanwhile it grieves me that as I have already given my purse to a beggar up the road I Nay my lord said Alleyne I still hove some moneys remaining Then I pray you to give them to this very worthy woman He cantered on as he spoke while Alleyne having dispensed two more pence left the old dame stand ing by the furthest cottage of Hordlo with her shrill voice raised in blessings revilingsThat slept at St Leonards in the great monastic barns j and spicarium ground well known both to Alleyne and to John for they were almost within sight of they Abbey of Beaulieu At early dawn they passed across the broad sluggish reedgirt streammen horses and baggage in the flat ferry bargesand so journeyed on through the fresh morning air past Ex bury to Lepe Topping the heathy down they came of a sudden full in sight of the old seaport Some way out from the town a line of pessoners creyers and other small craft were rolling lazily on the gentle swell Further out still lay a great merchant ship highended deep waisted painted of a canary yellow and towering above the fishing boats like a swan among ducklings By St Paul said the knight our good merchant of Southhampton hath not played us false for methiuks I can see our ship down yonder He said that she would be of great size and of a yellow shade Aylwardshecarry as many men as there are pips in a pomegranateIt remarked Terlake for methinks my fair lord that we are not the only ones who are waiting a passage to Gascony Mine eye catches at times yonderhousesShipmans jacket or the gaberdine of a burgherI also see it said Alleyne shad ing his eyes with his hand And I can see menatarms in yonder boats which ply betwixt the vessel and the shore But methinks that we are very welcome here for already they come forth to meet A tumultuous crowd of fishermen citizens and women had indeed swarmed approachedthemtheir hands and dancing with joy as though a great fear had been rolled back from their minds At their head rode a very large and solemn man with a long chin and drooping lip He wore a fur tippet round his neck and a heavy gold chain over it with a medallion which dangled in front of him Welcome most puissant and noble lord he cried doffing his bonnet You see in me the mayor and chief magistrate LepeImore so as you are come at a moment when we are sore put to it for defence Ha cried Sir Nigel pricking up his earsYes my lord for the town being very ancient and the walls as old as the town it follows that they are very ancient too But there is a certain villlanous and blood thirsty Norman pirate knight Tetenoire who with a Genoan called Tito Caracci commonly known as Spadebeard hath been a mighty scourge upon these coasts Indeed my lord they are very cruel and blackhearted men graceless and ruthless They have come in two great galleys with two banks of oars on either side and great store of engines of war and of menatarms At Weymouth and at Portland they have murdered and ravished Yesterday morning they were at Cowes and we saw the smoke from the burning crofts Today they lie at their ease near Freshwater and we fear much lest they come upon us and do us a mis chief We cannot tarry said Sir Nigel riding toward the town with the mayor upon his left side the Prince awaits us at Bordeaux and we may not be behind the general muster Yet I will promise you that on our way we shall find time to pass Freshwater and to prevail upon these rovers to leave you in peace We are much beholden to you tiled the mayor But I cannot see my lord how without a warship you may venture against these men With your archers however you might well hold the town and do them great scath if they attempt to land There is a very proper cog out you der said Sir Nigel it would be a very strange thing if any ship were not a war ship when it had such men as these upon her decks Certes we shall do as I say and that no later than this very day My lord said a roughhaired dark faced man who walked by the knights other stirrup with his head sloix1 to catch nil that he was saying by your leave I have no doubt that you are skilledI in land fighting and the lances but by my soul you will find it another thing upon the sea I am master shipman of this yellow cog and my name is Goodwin Hawtayne I have sailed since I was as high as this staff and I have fought against these Normans and against the Genoese as well as the Scotch the Bretons the Spanish ana the Moors I tell you sir that my ship is over light and overfrail for such work and it will but end in our having our throats cut or being sold as slaves to the Barbary heathen I also have experienced one or two gentle and honorable ventures upon the sea quoth Sir Nigel and I am right blithe to have so fair a task before us I think good mastershipman that you and I may win great honor in this matter and I can see very readily that you are a brave and stout man wI like it not said the other stur dily In Gods name I like it not And yet Goodwin Hawtayne is not the man to stand back when his fellows are for pressing forward By my soul be it sink or swim I shall turn her beak into Freshwater Bay and if good Master Witherton of Southampton like not my handling of his ship then he may find another master The throng moved on until at the very gate it was brought to a stand by a wondrously stout man who came darting forth from the town with rage in every faceHow he roared in a voice like a bull How now Sir Mayor How of the clams and the scallops By our Lady my sweet Sir Oliver cried the mayor I have had so much to think of with these wicked villians so close upon us that it had quite gone out of my head Nay Sir Oliver Sir Oliver cried Sir Nigel laughing Let your anger be appeased since instead of this dish you come upon an old friend and comrade By St Martin of Tours shouted the fat knight bis wrath all changed in an Instant to joy if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonne Ah my sweet coz I am right glad to see you What days we have seen together The dams and scallops shall be ready within the hour the mayor answered I had asked Sir Oliver Buttesthorn to do my humble board the honor to partake at it of the dainty upon which we take some little pride but in sooth this alarm of pirates hath cast such a shadow on my wits that I am like one distrait But I trust Sir Nigel that you will IBO par take of nonemeat with meT I have overmuch to do Kir Nigel answered for we must be aboard horse and man as early as we may How many do yon muster Sir Oliver Threeandforty Threeandforty I shall have work forever man of them ere the son set It to my Intention if It seems good to you to try a venture against these Norman and Genoese rovers CHAPTER XII Leaving the lusty knight and the Mayor of Lepe Sir Nuel led the Company straight down to the waters edge where long lines of flat lighters SWIftly bore them to their vessel Horse after horse was slung by main force up from the after kicking and plunging is empty air was drooped into the deep waist of the yellow co g where rows of stalls stood ready for their safe keeping Englishmen in those days were skilled and prompt in such matters for it was not long before that Edward had embarked as many as fifty thousand men in the port of Orwell with their horses and their baggage all in the space of fourand twenty hours So urgent was Sir Nigel on the shore and so prompt was Goodwin Uawtayne on the cog that Sir Oliver Buttesthorn had scarce swallowed his last scallop ere the peal of trumpet and clang of naker announced that all was ready and the anchor drawn In the last boat which left the shore the two com manders sat together in the sheets a strange contrast to one another while under the feet of the rowers was a litter of huge stones which Sir Nigel had ordered to be carried to the cog These once aboard the ship set her broad main sail the breeze blew the sails bellied over heeled the portly vessel and away she plunged through the smooth blue St Paul said Sir Nigel gayly as he stood upon the poop and looked on either side of him it is a land which is very well worth fighting fo it were pity to go to France for what may be had at home You may bring my harness from below he continued to his squires and also I pray youbring up Sir Olivers and we shall don it here Ye may then see to your own gear for this day you will I hope make a very honorable en trance into the field of chivalry and prove yourselves to be very worthy and valiant squires And now Sir Oliver as to our dispositions would it please you that I youYou By Our Lady Iam no chicken but I cannot claim to know as much of war as the squire of Sir Walter Manny Settle the matter to your own liking theifotepartFor foreguard I shall give you your own forty men with twoscore archers Two score men with my own menatarms and squires will serve as a poopguard Ten archers with thirty shipmen under the master may hold the waist while ten lie aloft with stones and arbalests Meanwhile there had been bustle and preparation in all parts of the great vessel The archers stood in groups about the decks newstringing their bows and testing that they were firm at the nocks Among them moed Aylward and other of the older soldiers with a few whispered words of precept and of warning there Stand to it my hearts of gold said the old bowman as he passed from knot to knot By my hilt we are in luck this journey But it is time that we took our order for methinks that between the Needle rocks and the Alum cliffs yonder I can catch a glimpse of the topmasts of the galleys Hewett Cook Johnson Cunningham your men are of the poop guard Thornbury Walters Hackett Baddlesmere you are with Sir Oliver on the forecastle Simon you bide with your lords banner but ten men must go and promptly the men took their places lying flat upon their faces on the deck for such was Sir Nigels order Near the prow was planted Sir Olivers spear with his armsa boars head Stiles upon a field of gold Close by the stern stood Black Simon with the pennon of HORDLB JOHN THE ARM SLOWLY the house of Loring In the waist gath eied the Southampton mariners hairy and burly men with their jerkins thrown off their waists braced tight swords mallets and poleaxes in their hands Their leader Goodwin Hawtayne stood upon the poop and talked with Sir Nigel casting his eye up sometimes at the swelling sail and then glancing back at the two seamen who held the tiller Pass the word said Sir Nigel that no man shall stand to arms or draw his bowstring until my trumpeter shall sound It would be well that we should seem to be a merchantship from South ampton and appear to flee from them We shall see them anon said the mastershipman Ha said I not sot There they lie the watersnakes in Freshwater Bay and mark the reek of smoke from yonder point where they have been at their devils work See how their shallops pull from the land They have seen us and called their men aboard Now they draw upon the anchor See them like ants upon the forecastle They stoop and heave like handy ship men But my fair lord these are iu niefs I doubt but we have taken in band more than we can do Each of these ships is a galeas and of the largest and swiftest make I would I had your eyes said Sir Nigel blinking at the pirate galleys IItrustfrom our meeting with them It would be well to pass the word that we should ndther give or take quarter this day The yellow cog had now shot out from the narrow waters of the Solent and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel The wind blew freshly from the east with a very keen edge to it and the great sail bellied roundly out laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath her lee bul warks Broad i j ungainly she floun dered from wave to wave her round bows deep into the blue and sending the white flakes of foam in a spatter over her decks On her Ill board quarter lay the two dark galleys which had already hoisted sail and were shooting out from Bay in swift pursuit their line of oars giving them a vantage which could not fail to bring them up with any vessel which trusted to sails alone High and bluff the English cog long black and swift the pirate galleys like two fierce lean which have seen a lordly and unsuspecting stag walk past their lair Shall we turn my fair ior or srinll tershipmnnlllrjnNay we must carryon and play the part of the helpless merchant But your pennons They will see that we have two knights with us Yet it would not he to a knights honor or good name to lower his pennon Let them he and they will think that we are a wine ship for Gascony or that we bear the woolbales of some mercer of the Staple Ma foi but they are very swift They swoop upon us like two goshawks on a heron Is there not some symbol or device upon their saiisT That on the right said Edricson appears to have the head of an Ethiop upon it Tis the badge of Tetenoire the Norman cried a seamanmariner I have seen it before when he harried us ar Winchelsca He is a wondrous large and strong man with no ruth for man woman or beast They say that he hath the strength of six and certes he haUl the crimes of six upon his soul By St Paul said Sir Nigel what is that upon the other galley It is the red cross of Genoa This Spadebeard is a very noted captain and it is his boast that there are no seamen and no archers in the world who can compare with those who seri the Doge Boccauegra That we shall prove said Goodwin Hawtayne They will lay us aboard on either quarter my lord cried the master See how they stretch out from each other The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle See they bend to the levers They are about to loose it yourthreerot do something t6 hinder their aim Methinks they are within long arrow flightSeventeen score paces said the archer running his eye backward and forwardJJY my ten fingerbones it would be a strange thing if we could not notch a mark at that distance Here LongYiIliamsthey have English bowmen to deal with The three archers named stood at tho further end of the poop balancing them selves with feet widely spread and bows drawn until the heads of the clothyard arrows were level with the centre of the stave You are the surer Watkin said Aylward by them with shaft upon string Do you take the rogue with the red coif You two bring down the man with the headpiece and I will hold myself ready if you miss Ma foi they are about to loose her Shoot mes garcons or you will be too late awayfromtwo of their number to discharge it steadyingon the spoonshaped end of the long wooden lever The other held the loop of the rope which would lease the catch and send the nn wieldly missile hurtling through the air So for an instant they showing hard and clear against the white sail behind them The next redcap had fallen across the stone with an arrow between his ribs and the other struck in the leg and in the throat was writhing and splut tering upon the ground As he toppled backward he had loosed the spring and the huge beam of wood swinging round with tremendous force cast the corpse of his comrade so close to the English ship that its mangled and distorted limbs grazed her very stern As to the stone it glanced off obliquely and fell midway between the vessels A roar of cheering and of laughter broke from the rough archers and seamen at the sight answered FORCED HUGE PIRATES BACK dipping rollers Freshwater double wolves standing by pursuersLiewith his left hand They will learn wisdom They are bringing forward shield and mantlet We shall have some pebbles about our ears ere long The three vessels had been sweeping swiftly westward the cog still well lo thE front although the galleys were drawing in upon either quarter To the left was a hard skyline unbroken by a sail Alleyne stood by the tiller looking backwards the fresh wind full in his teethWhat was that he asked as a hiss ing sharpdrawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear The steersman smiled and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy crossbow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards At the same instant the man tumbled forward upon his knees and lay lifeless upon the deck the bloodstained feather of a second bolt jutting out from his back As Alleyne stooped to raise him the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zipzip of the bolts and he could hear them pattering on the deck like apples at a treeshaking Keep them in play Aylward with ten of your men said Sir NigeL And let ten of Sir Olivers bowmen do as much for the Genoese I have no mind as yet to show them how much they have to fear trout us The mastershipman looked at the knight with a troubled face They keep their distance from us said he Our archery is overgood and they will not close- I think I may trick them the knight answered cheerfully and passed his order to the archers Instantly five of them threw up their hands and fell prostrate upon the deck They still hold aloof cried Haw tayue Then down with two morel shouted their leader That will do Ma foil but they come to our lure like chicks to the fowler To your arms men As he spoke a roar of voices and a roll of drums came from either galley and the water was lashed into spray by tho hurried beat of a hundred oars Down the pirates swooped theforecastlewhite faces brown faces yellow nml faces black fair Norsemen swarthy Italians fierce rovers from the Levant and fierv Moors from the Barbary States of all hues and countries and marked solely by the common stamp of n wild beast ferocity Rasping up on either with dars trailing to save them from cnnnpinp rtioy noiirod Jn n llvfnz tonvtj upontIllBut wilder yet was the cry and shriller still the scream when there rose un from the shadow of the cogs silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks One moment Alleyne saw the galleys poop crowed with rushing figures waving arms exultant faces the next it was a bloodsmeared shambles with bodies piled three deep upon each other the living cowering behind the dead to shelter themselves from that sudden stormblast of death On either side the seamen whom Sir Nigel had chosen for the purpose had cast their anchors over the sides of the galleys rore and aft the archers had cleared the galleys decks but from either side the rovers had poured down into the waist where the seamen and bowmen were pushed back and so mingled with their foes that it was impossible for their comrades above to draw string to help them It was a wild chaos where axe and sword rose and fell while Englishmen Norman and Italian staggered end reeled on a deck which was cumbered with bodies and slippery with blood The giant Tetenoire towering tofootswinging a huge mace with which hoI opposedhimdwarf in height but of great breadth of shoulder and length of arm had road almost to the mast with threeI score Genoese menatarms close at his heels OliverButtesthornswarmed down from the forecastle while BlackSimonscore more sprang down from the poop and hurled themselves into the thickest boundkept heheardwith all knightly weapons but all the tales that had reached hits ears fell far short of the real quickness and coolness wasiuthere now thrusting and now cutting catching blows on his shield turning them with his blade stooping under the swing of an axe springing over the sweep of a sword so swift and so erratic that the man who braced himself for a blow at him might find him six paces off ere he could bring it down Three pirates had fallen before him and he hud wounded Spadebeard in the neck when the Nor man giant sprang at him from the side with a slashing blow trout his deadly mace Sir Nigel stooped to avoid it and at the same instant turned a thrust frc i the Genocsse swordsman but his fool slipping in a pool of blood he fell heavily to the deck Alleyne sprang in front of the Norman but his sword was shuttered and he himself beaten to the deck by a weaponEre uponhiswas In the hands of a stronger man than himself Then came in truth a battle of giants such is seldom witnessed enagehisbeing thwarted by such an mile for antagonist But Hordle John with a bulls bellow bending his great muscles to the unwonted task forced the huge pirates sword arm slowly down and back strujgledhurlingponent In an endeavor to break the vice like grip which held him Back and forth they flung and surged until with a quick movement ordle John put forth a fierce effort twisting and forcing farther back the Normans arm until with a sharp crack like a breaking stave it turned limp in his grasp and the tingersInother hand Back and back still the Saxon bent him until with aroar of pain and of fury the giant clanged his full length upon the boards while the glimmer of a knife before the bars of his helmet warned him that short would be his shrift if he moved Cowed and disheartened by the loss of their leader the Normans had given back and were now streaming over the bul warks on to their own galley dropping a dozen at n time on to her deck But the fight had taken a new and a strange turn upon the other side Spade benrd und his men bad given slowly back AylwardBlackby foot the Italian had retreated his armor running blood at every joint his shield split his crest shorn his voice fallen away to a mere Rasping and croak ing Yet he faced his foemen with daunt less courage dashing in springing back surefooted steadyhanded with a shimmering point which seemed to menace three at once Beaten back on to the deck of his own vessel and closely fol lowed by a dozen Englishmen he disengaged himself from them ran swiftly down the deck sprang back into the cog once more cut the rope which held the anchor and was back In an instant among his crossbowuien At the same time the Genoese sailors thrust with their oars against the side of the cog and a rapidly widening rift appeared between the two St George cried Ford we are cut off from Sir Nigel lIe js lost gasped Terlake Come let us spring for It The two youths jumped with all their strength to reach the departing galley Fords feet reached the edge of the bulwarks and his hand clutching a rope he swung himself on board Terlake fell short crashed in among the oars and bounded off into the sea Alleyne staggering to the side was about to hurl himself after him but Hordle Johns heavy band dragged him back by the girdle The vessels were indeed so far apart now that the Genoese could use the full sweep of their oars and draw away rapidly from the cog Look Look l but it is a noble fight r shouted big John clapping his hands They have cleared the poop and they spring into the waist Well struck my herd Well struck Aylward See too Black Simon bow be storms among the shipmen But this Spadebeard is a gallant warrior riy Heaven Sir Nigel Is down cried the squire Up roared John It was but a feint He bears him back He drives him to the side Ah by Our Lady his sword Is through him The death of the Genoese leader did Indeed bring the resistance to an end Amid a thunder of cheering from cog and from galleys the forked pennon fluttered upon tho forecastle and the galley sweep lag round came slowly back The two knights bad come aboard the cog the shipman walked the deck a peaceful mastermariner once more There Is sad scats done to the cog Sir Nigel said he Here Is a hole in the side of two ells across the sail split through the center and the wood as bare as a friars poll By St Paul it would bo a very sorry thing if we suffered you to be the worse for this days work said Sir Nigel But lion fares it with you Edricson It is nothing my fair lord said AJIeyne who had now loosened bis basil net which was cracked across by the Normans blow Even as be spoke how ever his head swirled round and he fell to the deck with the blood gushing from his nose and mouth lie will come to anon said the knight stooping over him and nassing his fingers throneb his hair I have lost one very valiant and gentle squire this day How many men have fallen- I have nricked off the tally said Aylward There are seven of the Win chester men eleven seamen your squire young Master Terlake and nine archers And of the They are knight who would you that othersjlIe must said Sir Nigel must be done How Sir Knight he cried in broken English What do you sayto banethe death of a dog To hang shortlyFromenough of hanging others Peasants base roturiers cried the otherhit is their fitting death But to Bane the Seigneur iAndelysa man with the blood of kings in his veinsit is incredibleSir turned upon li heel while two seamen cast a noose over tho pirates neck At the touch of the cord he snapped the bonds which bound hint dashed one of the archers to the deck and seizing the other round the waist sprang with him into the sea By my hilt he is gone cried Ayl ward rushing to the side They have sunk together like a stone SirNigelvow to loose him I deem that he has curried himself like a very gentle awl ttbounaire cavalier- It was on the morning of Friday tho cightandtwciitieth day of November two days before the feast of St Andrew that tho cog and her two prisoners aftu running before a northeasterly wind and a weary tacking up tho Gironde and the Garonne dropped anchor at last in front of the noble city of Bordeaux With wonder and admiration Alleyue leaning over the bulwarks gazed at the forest of masts the swarm of boats darting hither and thither on the bosom of the broad curving stream and the gray crescent shaped city which stretched with many a tower and minaret along the western shore Never hud he in his quiet life seen so great a town nor was there in the whole of England save London alone one which might match it in size or in wealthI trust Aylward said Sir Nigel coming upon deckOothat the men are ready for the land Go toll them that the boats will be for them within the hour The archer raised his hand in salute and hastened forward In the meantime Sir Oliver had followed his brother knight and the two paced the poop to gether Nigellookingdo we find ourselves at the gate of honor tho door which loath so often led worthyTherewould be well that we haste ashore and pay our obeisance to him The horses both of knights aud squires were speedily lowered into a broad lighter and reached the shore almost ns soon as their masters Sir Nigel bent his knee devoutly as ho put foot on land and taking a small black patch from his bosom he bound it tightly over his left eye May the blessed George and the mem ory of my sweet ladylove raise high ill my heart quoth ho And as a token I vow that I will not take this patch from mine eye until I have seen something of this country of and done such a small deed as it lies in ino to do And this I swear upon the cross of my sword ladyWar upon so many fair cities around had brought nought but good to this one As her French sisters decayed she increased for here from north and from east and from south came the plunder to be sold and spentIn abbey of St Andrews was a large square with priests soldiers women friars and burghers who made It their common center for sightseeing and gossip Amid gesticulatingtownsfolk waytowardhuge iron clantped doors were thrown back to show that he held audience two knights were deep in talk when Alleyne became aware of a re markable individual who was walking round the room in their direction As he passed each knot of cavaliers every head turned to look after him and it was dent from the bows and respectful salu tations on all sides that the interest which he excited was not due merely to his strango personal appearance He was tall and as straight as a lance though of a great age for his hair which curled from under his black velvet cap of maintenance was as white as the new fallen snow Yet from the swing of his stride and spring of his step it was clear that he had not yet lost the fire and activity of his youth His fierce hawk like face was clean shaven like that of a priest save for a long thin wisp of white mustache That he had been handsome might be easily judged from his high hisfeaturesseams and scars of old wounds and by the loss of one eye which had been torn from the socket that there was little youngknighttheEnglishknight the wise councillor the valiant arrior crieddnrtinghis arms round Sir Nisei I heard that you were here and have been seeking you thelatighthave indeed come back to you for where else shall I go that I may learn to knightBy with a shouldhetied up one of your eyes and I have hnd the mischance to lose one of mine we SirOlivermud I sow you not So saying he led the way to the inner chamber the two companions treading close at his heels and nodding to right familiarfacesTo be Continued Next Week Synopsis of Preceding Chapters Tho scenes of tho story are laid In the nth century fleesfromcharges brought opaiiut him by a number of the monk Another of the laybrethren Alleyen rieontake his in accordance with hli bsbreamshis calling In sadnea he goes to vlit his reputationiAylwardanAtlrynofluids his brother in Jliiutend woods quarrel therebygnmingtheSucutauseundty to join companions at Cnrl clutch where dwell lielIleave him laughingly InureJelnshlscumlnnions at apparent bodily weakness tint galckiy changes obearwwds whom Lelearns Is the dauhter of Sir AlIrynoTelltoTo Whom Docs Tuft Refer P certaindonliueerltiHe fills me with dread They quail before him They cant call presenceAltogetherwaiter I once met In the West In a small Western town many years ago I put up at the Palace was no water nor towels in my room and I rang replyIStill no reply againIThis Walter was a robust man of stern aspectDid in a rumbling bass voice- I did I answered Well dont do it again said the waiter with n menacing scowl as he withdrew Prof Mustard of Haverford College claims that Ben Franklins maxims in Poor Richards Almanac are largely quotations from classical authors A hot controversy Is expected to ensue What Does This Mean J wrww If roughly displayed upon the wall of a house a had committed you the face could you their meaning Such was the problem which SHERLOCK HOLMES had to solve in his first chronicled adventure U The in book which made CONAN DOYLE the first of detective writers in the world In Holmes next adventure he was confronted by the image- in U The Sign of the Four these in been in Study cabalistic These two the first and best of the Sherlock Holmes novels 800 pages of read ing bound elegantly in a single big volume in illuminated cloth board Harper Bros regular 150 linen imperial edition sent postpaid with this coupon for 50 CENTS Here is a chance to get two of the most intensely interesting of adventures in a most beautifully printed and bound edition for just onethird price FREE WITH THIS BOOR HotelThere puzzling things Fresh Blood where great crime stared explain Scarlet- A A handsome copper photocuaravure of Sherlock Holmes printed on heaviest enameled paper framing Be sure and use this Coupon sending cents in Stamps Coin or Money Order UARPER DROS Franklin Square N Y City NtJ1Jc Street Towiz State OUR HOME TOWN- A Department Devoted to Village Betterment RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD ncuvomcmbcrsvillagelifeundlorparksArebythecolumns The leeat Handicap The Prophet is without honor In his own country So the village and small town fire without confidence In their own resources We get so familiar with the things about us that we re apt to underrate their value It is often necessary for a total stranger to come along and show us the neglected opportunities that have been under our nose unseen for years The writer while pursuing some in dustrial Investigations had occasion to visit a thrifty little city in the South west It Is an old town that has liter ally been forced to the front by the pressure of development and northern energy The place has five railroads a population of 30000 and a number of modern buildings Still the natives ROUSE AND BARN FOR HOMECROFT VILLAGE Water town Mass have not yet fully realized the chancre they still arc doubtful and About four ear a o iItalthis particular city He was just looking around with no special purpose in view A curbstone real estate broker had on his list a tract of bottom land timbered but worthless on ac count of the annual floods This land lie had hawked about the street for 75c per acre but found no takers among the home speculators The tract was no good It was offered to this stranger for 100 per acre Would he look at it Yes He looked It over examined every acre of It came back to town and handed over 10000 for the worthless tract Great was the joy of the natives who were Used up at the various bars to drink to the health of the sucker But the sucker returned In about a month with another capitalist from the North and sold this worthless tract for 30 000 But this was not all Within ninety days the second sucker brought a third and sold him the timber alone for 50000 And then the local bankers and conservative capitalists kicked themselves for not thinking of It For years people have been leaving Arkansas and Missourigoing west looking for opportunities Today strangers are taking their places and finding money on every bush The newcomers are simply developing the resources which the natives failed to recognizeThis holds true of a ma 5orlty of individuals in every community We are too near to see the opportunities at our feet We pass them over and leave them for someone to pick up The twentieth century for the United States at least will be a time of con centration rather than expansion A century oft rural development and homebuilding As has been indicated the people must get back to the land and Industrial Institutions to reach their best development must give the worker a chance for a home The Value of a Good Garden Many people fail to realize the great value of a thrifty wellkept garden Even an inferior one is much better than none Vegetables are in dispensable to a family so far as health Is concerned to say nothing of the money saved by not having to buy so groceriesItBhould manage to obtain a piece of wellfertilizedunder a thorough state of cultivation before trying to plant the seeds Itonly costs a little to buy enough seeds for quite a goodsized garden I From St Paul Fret By way of affording a practical ob ject lesson in the Homecroft idea George H Maxwell has acquired fifty acres of ground at Watertown Mass less thru thirty minutes by rail trolleyfromwill be broken up into small crofts for city workers There it is to be presumed will be illustrated by de grees all the different phases of bet terment which characterZe the homecroft as compared with the applicationcan wageearner especially he whose weekly stipend comes from work in city shog or store or factory Among THE HOME CROFTERS GILD ThcirllOwn CHANCE FOR FACTORY WORKERS Every Child in a Garden and Every theMottoFirstSchoolEDWARD T HARTMAN Secretary Massachusetts Civic League thereisbe one of the most sane and practical solutions of many of the problems of modern city life ever attempted in this country It is in line with the best enterprises for solving the questions of housing sanitation education and morals As such it should command the attention and cooperation of all constructive social workers The Homecrofters Gild offers garden work and craftsmanship as a substi tute for the street corner the cheap show and the saloon And it offers in addition health contentment and a substantial Increase In Income to the workers The increase takes a practi cal form in the shape of health from work in the air from fresh vegetables and fruits from a clean environment and from absence of bad habits from pastimesfroma direct return in the way of com modities for use in the home or for saleThe founder and main supporter of the movement is Mr George H Max well editoV of Maxwells Talisman and IrrigationUovement ditions Mr Maxwell has concluded that college settlements and similar movements merely scratch the upper utterlytoa better condition His creed is Every child In a garden every mother in a homecroft and Individual in dustrial independence for every worker in a home of his own on the land MEANING OF HOMECROFT The word Homecroft has been thingheoflandpant but not large enough to yield him a living and constitute him a farmer The Homecrofter therefore under the conditions being developed is a labor Ing man clerk skilled artisan or what not who supplements his regular in come by and spends his spare time in maylikewisehours and at other times when they would otherwise be on the street or streettradesthe children the advantages are ob vious Healthy exercise In the open air for a purpose fresh vegetables and other products and occupation are substituted for spasmodic exercise under bad conditions stale vegetables or none at all and the gang It can be demonstrated that the onehalfgiventohourTheTHE GILDHALL AND SHOPS theWilson THE HOMECROFT VS THE TENEMENT alresdydemonstrated these surroundingsairfor children to grow up without con influencestenements andhealthfulearner himself and wholesome op drentocome in the cultivation of an acre more or less of ground This would hisgirls town has been purchased and con forhandicrafthouse has practically all been appro priated to the use of a garden school gardensTheElizabeth S Hill of Groton who last year conducted the school gardens in hundredmany more almost two hundred in all have applied for space It Is an inter esting sight mill a poor commentary on our public school system to see notInand inquire of the instructors as to waitIthe grounds so that it has become a childrens center for the town The opening or the garden school has aroused an interest among other pri vate organizations in the neighborhood and the Womens Club of Watertown has established another garden school also under Miss Hills supervision as is still another opened by the Womens Social Science Club of Newton whose garden is on Jackson Road near Non autumOn the outer boundry of the town the old Emerson IMace has been pur chased and set aside as a garden school for boys and even men who desire to do practical work The plots in this garden mire large enough to permit of practical experiments mid to even supply quite a quantity of vegetables which each gardener Is allowed to ap propriate to his own use The only requirement is that each gardener pro vide his own tools and seed and pay sufficient attention to the instruction and to his work to keep his plot in fair condition and In harmony with the garden as a whole There is in this garden plenty of space not taken and opportunityThe garden is supervised by a young man with practical experience in market gardening WEAVE BEAUTIFUL THINGS onlyhanl1iertft byMiss1111Camhrll1in working order and Instruction has been taken up The aim of the work in weaving as it will be in other home craft work is not to have a weav ing establishment for the production of goods but to conduct a school in weaving and design where women in the community may learn to do work which may be carried on In their homes This as In the case of the occupyspare congenialbelieyedthat theIrIncomebe forced Into factories and other un willlJesupplied by and the product sold through the Gild By this method ex penses will be kept at a minimum and the highest profits accrue to the workersHOME LANDS IN SMALL PARCELS The more farreaching and substan tial feature of the movement is the acquisition and subdivision of land into small tracts for actual croft purpose as outlined above This closely resembles the schemes developed in I Hitchin Tort Sunlight Bournville and Looking Across Tract Showing Growth of Barley Raised This Year Irrigation Canal- Furnishing Water for Tract ARIZONA VILLAGE elsewhere in It will not he out of place to outline the Bournvlile plan which is identical in many respects and has been carried out to an assured success This model yillage was started in 1879 when Messrs Cad- bury Bros removed their works from them to tfite xaTiluiy rShop 3 Reliable arJ sup port for the wageear us himself in regularirrigatedwill4 Opportunity to set up in the homecroft little handicrafts for the products of which there is a constant demand such as special lines of cabinetmaking makingmanufacturers powerfrom ofhomecroftersthe concentration of thousands of workers in great factories is not after all in a great many lines of in Birmingham to a point four miles from the city and erected twentyfour houses for the workmen Mr George Cadbury from long observation and experience concluded that the only practical way to solve the problem was to take the factory worker out on the land where he might pursue the na tural and healthy recreation of garden ing Says Mr W Alexander Harvey in his book on It was im possible for working men to be healthy and have healthy children when after being confined all day in factories they spent their evenings in an institute club room or publichouse If It were necessary for their health as it un doubtedly was that they should get View Orchnrd Showing Trolley Line by Which Boston Iteached in Fortyflve Minutes LANDS AT BE FOR HOMECROFT VILLAGE air it was equally to the advantage of their moral life that they should be brought into contact with nature There was an advantage too in brining the on to the land for instead of his losing money in the amusements usually sought in the he it in his garden prod UCLa great consideration where the poorer class of workman was con cerned And again The cultivation of the soil is certainly the best anti dote to sedentary occupation of those prlmltlvcInstinctwhich seems hardly yet to have been realized Many believe indeed that with its encouragement the abuse of the social club and the public house will be materially lessened and one of the greatest social evils of the time disappear The experience of Bourn ville certainly gives support to this conclusion for nearly house holder there spends his leisure in gard ening and there is not a single licensed house in the village SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A HOUSE The houses of Bournville were built with special reference to cheapness artistic sanitation and convenience At a cost of from 700 SCENES IN OUTSKIRTS OF PHOENIX ARIZONA SHOWING FOR FIRST HOMECROFT England occupation Bournville workingman to 2500 each a higher grade of than the workers had been accustomed to was provided Rents from 4s Gd to 12s per week not including rates and the death rate Birmingham dustry a necessity for the ttainment of the best results whichwill Jintainment water supply electric lights improved roads etc while the cultivation of each separate acre or croft will be facilitated by the cooperative ownership of the numer ous expensive pieces of ma bestlargeafforded by the individual crofter 6 The fostering of a sturdy individualism to hich nothing contributes so muc as the ownership of a home and a conscious ness that one can make a living regardless of any boss Concurrently with such betterments tenths per thousand In Bournville The garden features in Bournville are planned with much care provision in most cases being made for some lawn- Mowers vegetables and fruits To return to the Homecrofters Gild is one distinctive advantage in Mr Maxwells plan in that he aims to attach to each home eno gi land to it a feature and not merely an incident in the life of the worker and he has added the crafts work for wo men and for men in the winter He already has under way plans for an experimental group of four houses wider one roof to be placed at the centre of a square so as to secure the greatest economy of space and place Sunny Slop for and Vegetables WATEUTOWN MASS THAT WILL SUBDIVIDED fresh towns saved every development SITE much home range halls farm independent there make Berries tho worker In direct contact with hl preparedhtect Something over fifty acres of lan have already been purchased for subdi vision and improvement This will be primeticallythe cut of division and improvement A special plan is to sell homes to in longtimeat a rate which will be no more than usually paid in rent but which wI pathetime carry what will amount to an surance policy covering the amount of the purchase price remaining due s that if the purchaser should die property would go to his family without further payment FOLLOWS SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH PLAN The movement is not intended to an c isolated one as the shops and gardens are open to any one who will use them in the right way Mr Max well feels that isolation has been the anthatthemselves become a part of such a movement if it is to succeed Here thatBournville of all the houses have been built by the twtenthsin the village Eighteen and sixtenth- per cent work In villages within mile and forty and twotenths per cen work in Birmingham Fifty an seventenths per cent of them are employed at indoor work in factories thirteen and threetenths per cent are clerks and travellers and thirtysix o profesa normal community life is beingdeveloped OVERCOMING PHYSICAL DEGENERACY The Gild is not making the mistak- of trying to make farmers pure an simple out of city workers Such a hard and fast line between city and country will always lead to failure Mr Maxwell says Give the cl worker a home in the suburbs whe he can have a garden and a poult yard and where his children can hay sunshine and fresh air without stintand you have largely done away with cursingdenizens the of our great cities physical degeneracy tuberculosis and social moral an political dangers too numerous to be enumerated Henry W Grady described the antithesis when he said The citizen standing in the doorwa of his home contented on this titre holdhis family gathered about hi hearthstonewhile the evening of a wellspent day closes In scenes and sounds that are dearesthe shall save the republic when the drum tap is futile and the barracks are The Homecroft Gild has exhaustedIin immediate wageearnerthecroft idea would relieve the con gestion of population in cities and greatly assist in their development along those lines which are o much better than mere bigness A hun peoplelivingan hours ride of a city would make far more business for the city of every desirable kind than the same number closely packed in tenements The homecroft experiment not to be limited to the settlement fastIered by Mr Maxwell near The idea combines with its suggestions of social betterments the probability of very satisfactory returns to the owners of vacant lands near cities who may be disposed to experiment with it 1PhoenIx Arizona a farm of one hun dred and sixty acres has been turned into a homecroft village The land is especially adapted to raising vege tables and Is under one of the best waterrights In the region Fiveacre tracts are here given to each works The new government reservoir on Salt River and driven wells on the property insure a permanent supply of water for irrigation and therefore unfailing crops These undertakings while practical and constructive in every sense are intended rather as models to show communItyinseven per cent of her total population working in part or entirely on the land has become a land of gardens where hopeless poverty is almost unknown and where tuberculosis is a negligable quantity America can take care of its hopeless thousands in the same way first by putting hope into them and then by putting them where they may attain it It is to the promoters of our great industries that we must look for help In great part but public sentiment and sympathy will move the problemTimestart which ought to weld together the country and the city into one Indestructible whole and supplemented by proper charity administration and sane vagrancy laws remove entirely the submergedtentIJ Parking for the Town The town parks or the town or village square are the lungs of Its citizensIf town is growing it is none too soon to start a movement to provide parkIngtown has doubled and has become a small city it will not be so easy to secure sites readily accessible to the exorbitanteimportant that a large amount of money should be at once expended upon Its beautification possibly It needs but little since nature may have made it more beautiful than can man It is not necessary that it should be transformed into carpet beds of flowers and trimly kept lawns If it affords sunlight and a green relie of grass and trees for the eye It becomes a civilizer and an equalizer for the poor as well as the wealthy a resting forshis anxieties in a contemplation of what God has made asdhoweverito secure its site with a view to the building up of the community when laud values will necessarily increase Distribution of Immigrants the Solution practicableIImoreycountry the congestion and segrn gatlon phases of this problem would be nearer solution It can be accom itean ortheInduceImmigrantsports by leading and insuring them employment in the Interior and by in forming them of opportunities else conditionsmany of which maintain immigration agencies might also be brought more generally into play to attract the in dustrious and ambitious new comers to their farms and smaller towns Improving School Grounds In Rochester N Y the school schoolsotheracon childrenitexemplary Whereverganywhere in this country there is Onedwho has the Spirit ofTrue Patriotism andreHumanityein his or her heart Ie The Coming People DOLEdshould be the first book to be read yThen is a multitude of thinking people 6who see the dangers the future holds for our country unless we reach a wise solution of the tremendous social problems that confront us approacbthe J forth in this remarkable book In a way that must be an inspiration to every truly hu I mane and patriotic heart optimismosophical truth that pervades this book ha taken as the underlying motive of the movement and the Creed and Platform of the Homecrofters as the practical plan td work to and the rest of the great social questions are certain to be rightly solved by application to them of the sound and humane principles that will guidethe action of our people upon all great rational ques copy of The Coming People postage prepaid will be mailed to any address in the United States for twatyfiv copy of both The Coming People and The First Book of the Homecrofters and Maxwells Talisman monthly for tr rest of the year win be milled to UJ address in the United States for fifty casts Remit in postage stamps to The Rosa crofters i4Z Main sUm Watertow8M s Should even a portion of the beneficent results predicted from the pass age of the bill removing the tax from denatured alcohol be realized that measure will ring in a new industrial era not only in the factory but more particularly the farm and the home No other work of the Fiftyninth Con gress not even excepting the railway rate act will compare with the in general beneficence if half even a quarter of what is claimed for it shall come to pass Alcohol says the Philadelphia Record might be dis stilled from potatoes in quantity suf ficient to light heat and supply power to all the Northern States of the Union and at such a low cost as to supplant kerosene and gasoline This alcohol would be incapable of use as a beverage To the dwellers in the country in particular such a development Would be of instant universal and in SUGAR BEETS WILL ALCOHOL FOR fcalculable benefit but to every man no matter where he it would be of some importance Says the Louis ville Courier Journal after quo ng the Philadelphia Records tribute to the coming great and almost universal blessing And potatoes are only one of hundreds of things from which this useful product would be distille if the tax were removed Such a step would create in this country a prac tically new and vastly beneficial dustry whose benefits would be shared by the whole people as con sumers and by of thousands of them as producers There is productionWOULD USE UP PRODUCTS Potatoes beets corn the states as well as the grainand the waste pro ducts of our molasses factories may run our engines cook our meals heat and light our homes The present tax of 110 per gallon on commercial al cobol renders its use for power fuel and light absolutely out of the ques tion although for these purposes it can be manufactured at less than 10 cents a gallon At this rate it can Stp plant both gasoline and kerosene than which it is also safer and much cleaner The only opponents of the bill were the wood alcohol and Standard Oil interests which would be the losers Farmers especially insisted upon its passage The white potato can readily heat light and furnish power for our Northern states the sweet v to the yam and the waste from the molasses factory can do the same for our states while in the great West the sugar beet and Indian corn can turn the wheels of the factory farm and conveyance and banish from the home the chill of winter or the blackness of night Such is the state ment of II W Wiley Chief of the governments bureau of chemistry Sugar and starch when fermenting yield about half their weight in a so lute alcohol About onefifth the weight of potatoes nearly three quarters the weight of corn and al most onesixth that of the sugar beet are these fermentable sugars and starchesPOTATO A GOOD ALCOHOL MAKER The potato will be our chief source of this undrinkable commercial alco potatoes300bushelswlll such fuel for running automobiles farm motors and other engines for c HEAT AND LIGHT FROM FARM CROPS Wonderful Possibilities of Denatured Alcohol Provided for by Congress GUY ElliOTT MITCHEll heating cooking and lighting A bush gallonstatoes almost exclusively for human food and we plant only those varieties which have the finest flavor for tl table independent of their yield per acre But there are potatoes yielding many more bushels per u than these esteemed for food They are such as are grown for cattle food in parts of the old world where corn is scarce Secretary of Agriculture Wil son estimates that there would be no dilliculty in obtaining 500 gallons of ietyIOtItOtSa commercial crop only within a short distance from market It does not pj to haul them far But as soon as they can be used as a source of heat light and power factories wil spring up in country neighborhoods where PRODUCE THE WEST lives hundreds WASTE Southern Prof coal is now expensive and large areas of potatoes will be grown for their g test possible yield of alcohol The sweet potato and yam would furnish about the same proportions of alcohol as the white potato- ALCOIIOL FROM CORN AND STALKS An acre of corn fifty bushels will furnish 130 gallons of absolute alcohol a bushel of corn two and fourfifths gallons An acre of potatoes thus produces much more alcohol than an acre of corn when only the grain of the latter is taken into consideration But corn stalks if harvested before they dry out contain large quantities producehol per acre according to the estimate of Secretary Wilson In 100000000 acres of corn the making of ten billion gallons of this alcohol therefore yWilsoning when we will utilize this illlJnse source of energy According to Dr Wiley the fermautable material in the WI GERMAN COOPERATIVE DISTILLING PLANT stalks could be removed by the presses sugarcanealcohol from corn it might be of in DrWileyalcollOlin Westinbyproducts alcohol is extracted will pay the cost of distillation SUGAR BEETS AND MOLASSES An acre of sugar beets will produce 224 gallons of alcohol Our vast irri projects in the West are watering lands which will soon produce perllapsthan turnedinto molassessource of our commercial alcohol sup ply Millions of gallons of this pro SouthAmericuidies are now largely burned fed to portionany price above freight At New Or leans and Brooklyn it is be liquorsTheagreeable odor and taste But if re pulsivo matter must be added tottto make it umlrinka1 aiil taxfree under the new bill it will serve as well as any other alcohol thus manu lightAlrendthis base molasses is being made at 10 cents per The base mo lasses itself can be had at New York gradllofbyproduct by our beet sugar factories Ten factories of Michigan send their produce to a distillery in that state and produce from it about a half million gallons of absolute alcohol But this byproduct of our beet sugar fac tories generally goes to waste in other states Yet we sit by and bemoan the decreasing supply and increasing price of coal the diminishing supply of wood wonder where we shall turn next for power heat and light whether we shall harness the moon with tide motors or the sun with solar engines Moreover the production of eastern petroleum is falling off and practically no gasoline is being found in the petroleum of Texas and the West And yet according to Dr Wiley our farmers can grow any maybeworld and not a pound of it would take one element of fertility from the soilCOOPERATIVE DISTILLERIES corngrowingestablish cooperative distilleries for the sole purpose of producing this de natured industrial alcohol is the 7=OLDFASHIONED SOUTHERN SUGAR MILL Indian A gation Boston gallon proposition of Nahum Bachelder master of the National Grange o was pressing the passage in the in terest of the 800000 farmers of his organization These cooperative dis tilleries would be under close government supervision and the alcohol would be rendered unfit for beverage purposes before leaving the distillery warehouse In this way the cost to the farmers of this material for lighting heating cooking and motor fuel purposes could be kept at the lowest point In Great Britain alcohol made un drinkable by the addition of 5 per it of wood alcohol and a much smaller proportion of mineral nnptha is now sold freely without tax Since Germany also had untaxed alcohol fo industrial purposes France witzer land Holland Belgium Italy Russia Sweden Norway AustriaHungary Portugal and six LatinAmerican re publics exact no tax on this denatured alcohol already regarded as one of the necessities of agriculture manufacture and general indus v In these freealcohol countries there are being used many varieties of ale cohol engines alcohol automobiles alcohol motor boats alcohol f rm motors alcohol lamps and alcohol SUCCEEDS IN EUROPE Oermany lac far surpassed in all of these inventions which were largely mothered by necessity for the father land has no natural gas or petroleum But its broad sandy plains produce cheap and abundant crops of potatoes from which every farmer n manu facture a vast quantity of raw alcohol Inventors andscientistshave been busy with Improvements in farm distilleries motors lamps cooking and heating apparatus Their spirit motors are being turned out in all formsup right and horizontal stationary por table and locomotive Alcohol loco motives pull trains of a dozen cars on large farms sugar plantations and onelneering works The army has had built ten horsepower alcohol en gineers wagons each with a speed of ten miles an hour carrying tools and apparatus for a regiment of en host of Converting this Dena tured or undrinkable alcohol back into its original condition would be much more than for making pure alcohol anew according to Dr Wiley He thinks the best method of making it undrinkable would be the addition of ten per cent wood alcohol and one per cent of pyridine According to the bill as it passed the denaturing ingredients are left to the discretion of the internal revenue tax v SOME SEW PARISIAN LINGERIE Colors in Blouses Very Fashionable Especially the Delicate Tints BERTHA BROWNING In the new Paris lingerie the fashion is to have sets of chemise drawers and short petticoat of the same material and type and all trimmed in the same manner Nain sook and very fine batiste are the ma terials usually employed for their con struction the mode of silk underwear being for the time abandoned There are two new fabrics called silk nain sook and silk chiffon both cotton but of very fine weave and which do not lose their glossy appearance in wash ing These materials have much the appearance of silk and in garments made of them lace is profusely used upperiare most to the elbow These are open A NEW UNDERGARMENT nearly to the shoulder over the forearm where they are loosely tied with a succession of ribbon bows In lin gerie garments the square neck is preferred to the round this year and this is always finished with a band of lace or embroidery The empire form is of course very fashionable for chemises but while it is a pretty cut it needs to be made of very fine material else its straight form will lie in folds beneath the cor set Most chemises nowadays are shaped in under the arms so as to do away with this extra width at the waistline A pretty finishing to take the place of sleeves and shoulder parts on a garment to be worn with decol lette dress consists of ribbons which tie on the shoulders and may be untied and slipped beneath the bodice when worn with the evening gown The Japanese nightgown of quit loose cut is a decided novelty Thi has rows of little tucks descendin from the shoulder and extending way down the figure A double ban of insertion starts at the foot of the gown passes by the side of the tucks over the right shoulder and around the neck at the back meeting in the centre of the front at the waistline The sleeves are loose and flowing as befits a garment of this nature Few nightdresses have collars most of them being finished with straight bands of embroidery or lace CHARMING DRESSING SACKS Some very jaunty little dressing sacks of silky batiste or nainsook are being constructed These are entirely accordeon pleated except for a por tion of the sleeve Lace and insertion surround the throat and for those of Empire cut a band of the same marks the high waistline in back and in front rises over the bust to be fastened with ribbons Some of these lingerie tea jackets have broad and elaborate collars which reach over the should ersAnother new comer is the blouse waistcoat of embroidered linen batiste or mousseline de soie This is made without sleeves and drawn in about the waist with a tape to adjust the ful ness in front These are designed to be worn with lingerie suits of which a long or short jacket forms a part Lingerie petticoats are of increasing daintiness They are for the most part elaborately trimmed the top portion being of sheathlike cut and fitting without a bit of fulness They are completed with broad flounces of ofrthese flounces show several of lace or embroidery while others are elaborate with handembroidered designs Violets The roses I sent were red My rival sent her white My heart is torn with doubt and fear Which will she wear tonight I hear her step upon the stair Ah Fortune now disclose- My lady comes stand still my heart Whose violets are those One Note on Mary TeclmlcalworidMary lamb Just thirty years ago The chops we had for lunch today Were from that lamb we know Q E DHow old is Mary The Popes Wardrobe A large number of women are em ployed at the Vatican solely in keep ing the Popes wardrobe in perfect condition No spot or stain may dis figure his garments and as he always appears in white even a few hours wear deprives the robes of their fresh ness Women are permitted to serve the Pontiff in this one respect only as male attendants are not considered suitable for the work Only the most delicate materials are usedmoIre silk in summer and a specially woven tflrie cloth in winter THE MESSAGE Listen said Raleigh and suddenly seized my hand clockinHe did not seem to hear what I said but kept on listening to the strange rattling noise and I saw beads of cold perspiration on his forehead while his hand turned cold as ice Nevertheless there was in his eyes a far away look of joyIt I do not understand what is the matter with you Tell me Oh never mind he answered but surely you heard it as well as I Didnt you Well then the time has come For hours days years I have expected it have ofttimes longed for and still now when it has come it seems hard to suddenlyNonsense the alarm clock to do with your deatlIt lIe looked at me with the same won derful expression in his eyes and saidWell I will tell you what I have never told any one before You remember that Lora died three years ago She died at exactly twentythree minutes of five in the afternoon Loo at your watch and see what time i is nowI at my watch lust twenty minutes of five Yes and three minutes ago that alarm went off just at the hour and minute of her death I looked at Raleigh in astonishment Well even if that is so I do see what Loras death has to do with youWith me Oh but you dont CJow even my dearest friend How shouh- you know that Lora was my wife Nobody knew it but ourselves Lora was your wife Yes my wife he replied with tears in his eyes You know how her father hated me and why But she loved me as I loved her and we married secretly a few weeks before she died I was not at her deathbed and would not have known had not the mainspring broken in that ver clock we just heard with just the same peculiar noise At the moment it hap pened a feeling of deadly terror overpowered me I rushed to her house but they would not let me in I crie that she was my wife but they slammed the door in my face and I swooned away When I came to my senses again I was here How I got to my rooms I do not know but I do know that sh was with me and at my side pale as- a ghost Lora I cried She turned to me and said Wait for me dear the clock will call you Lora I cried again Another woman stood at my side He is de lirious she said We must renew the icebagNow you have heard it just as I did The clock has called and I must go But Raleigh = I began lie interrupted me Do not say anything he whis pered I know it and I am ready I have been waiting so longoh so long Good bye lIe reached eagerly forward as if suddenlyfellfigured into the most beautiful ex yousamghed BOYS Writeus todayDo now FRECKLES REMOVED sal Q ruos STILUlUS sronertnrend Btanel Rmelf ttdte trdrLn 1edle Vineless Potato Held Fraud saystlIatagainst the Vineless Potato Company advertisedriguts for a viueless potato which would grow in bins above ground in bytiletice and Postoffice the fraud order was issued and W D Darst discov erer of the 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